Dr Thomas Drosdeck
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Dr Thomas Drosdeck
Career
Dr Thomas Drosdeck is Partner of BEITEN BURKHARDT’s practice group Labour Law in Frankfurt am Main. He specialises in providing labour law advice to companies in the areas of collective labour law, works constitution law and company co-determination. He particularly focuses on the implementation of co-determination structures as well as variable remuneration systems and employee participation schemes under collective law. He advises national and international companies, in particular from the telecommunications and IT sector.
Dr Thomas Drosdeck studied law at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main as well as at Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. During a doctorate scholarship, he worked at Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main and, at the same time, he held lectures at the private university European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel. He was admitted to the German Bar in 1990 and has been a specialist in labour law ever since. After having been Partner at the law firm Brendel & Partner in Frankfurt am Main, which merged with Faegre & Benson LLP (Minneapolis/USA) in 2001, he joined BEITEN BURKHARDT as Partner in March 2005. Dr Thomas Drosdeck is a lecturer at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
The publishing house and information service JUVE lists Dr Thomas Drosdeck as frequently recommended lawyer with regard to labour law.
(JUVE Handbook Commercial Law 2020/2021, 2019/2020 and 2017/2018)
The publishing house and information service JUVE lists Dr Thomas Drosdeck as frequently recommended lawyer with regard to labour law.
"very professional, reliable and solution-oriented", Competitor
(JUVE Handbook Commercial Law 2018/2019)
Memberships
- European Employment Lawyers Association
Publications / Lectures
In the field of legal history, legal methodology and legal theory.
Essays/Articles:
Crowdworking – “Collecting bottles on the Internet”
Dr Thomas Drosdeck
in: Labor Law Magazine - Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, 01/2021, p. 6 et seq.
Collecting Bottles on the Internet - Crowdworking Decision of the BAG
Dr Thomas Drosdeck
in: AuA 2/21, p. 21 et seq.
Section 13 German Federal Vacation Act Violates European Law: Short-Time Work Must not Reduce Leave Pay – no Protection of Confidence for Employers
Dr Thomas Drosdeck and Angela Schilling
in: Der Betrieb, 04/2019, p. 195
The Use of a Laptop, Smartphone, iPad, Remote Access in the "Spare Time" – the Employer's Perspective
Dr Thomas Drosdeck
in: Employee Participation in Social Affairs (Mitbestimmung in sozialen Angelegenheiten), Ro-land Lukas/Holger Dahl (ed.), Frankfurt, 2016, p. 270 et seq.
Reference Period For the Determination of Working Hours with No Explicit Contract
Dr Thomas Drosdeck and Angela Schilling
in: Der Betrieb, 18/ 2017, p. 1032 et seq.
On Mutual Waiver Clauses in Standard Termination Agreements
Dr Thomas Drosdeck and Angela Schilling
in: Der Betrieb, 43/2016, p. 2546 et seq.
Alternative Models for Works Councils
Dr Thomas Drosdeck and Marco Ferme
in: personalmagazin 07/2013, p. 61
The Abuse of Law by Fixed-term Cover Contracts
Dr Thomas Drosdeck and Dr. Christian Bitsch
in: Neue juristische Wochenschrift 2013, p. 1345 et seq.
Mediation between the Employer and the Works Council from the Employer's Perspective
Dr Thomas Drosdeck
in: Konfliktlösung im Arbeitsleben, Roland Lukas/Holger Dahl (ed.), published by Luchterhand-Verlag, 1st edition 2013
Blog articles
Press releases
NEWS
Become an employee with a click? - Employers watch out for crowdwork offers |
Become an employee with a click - Employers watch out for crowdwork offers.pdf |
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12th Frankfurt Labour Law Dialogue |
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BEITEN BURKHARDT Advises ING DiBa on Acquisition of Lendico |
PR BEITEN BURKHARDT advisese ING DiBa on Acqusition of Lendico.pdf |
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Appeal to the Federal Constitutional Court: Do Civil Servants get rid of themselves? |
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BEITEN BURKHARDT expands Employment Law Practice |
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