Judith Herzig

Hamburg

Judith Herzig advises German and international companies, managing directors and executives in all areas of individual and collective labour law.

Judith Herzig studied law at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg and the University of Oviedo (Spain). During her legal clerkship in the district of the Higher Regional Court of Düsseldorf, she focused on employment law, working for the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and in the human resources department of a well-known DAX-listed company. She also worked in the employment law department of a renowned major law firm, both as part of her legal traineeship and as a research assistant.

Area of expertise

  • Ongoing labor law advice for companies, from agreed annual targets to terminations
  • Planning, support and implementation of operational change
  • Negotiations with work councils and drafting of collective working conditions
  • Drafting of individual employment contracts and personalized measures
  • Labor law litigation
  • Internal investigations
  • Employee data protection and privacy
  • Introduction of labor law compliance measures such as whistleblowers or ombudsmen
  • Employment law consulting for managers and protection against unwarranted dismissal
  • Advice for managing directors and executive bodies
  • Training courses and lectures

Publications

  • No claim for damages in the event of a breach of the duty to provide information pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR – Judgement note on LAG Nuremberg of 25.1.2023, 4 Sa 201/22, ArbeitsrechtAktuell (ArbRAktuell) 2023 p. 237
  • Working time: 1:1 implementation of court requirements by draft bill? – ArbeitsrechtAktuell (ArbRAktuell) 2023, p. 221
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