Dr. Christian Ley
Dr. Christian Ley advises companies, CEOs, directors and management in all fields of labour law.
Dr. Christian Ley studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich from 1998 to 2002. During his studies, he already worked part-time in law firms in the field of employment law. After his first state examination, Christian Ley wrote his doctoral thesis in the field of constitutional law under Prof. Dr. Dr. Udo Di Fabio at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. During his legal clerkship in Munich, he spent two longer periods abroad in New York and London. After completing his second state examination in law in Munich, Dr. Ley worked for more than five years in the employment law department of a major international law firm before joining the leading German employment law practice of a major German law firm in Munich and Berlin for two years. After working in the employment law department of a corporate group, Dr. Ley joined the partnership of a renowned Munich employment law firm, which he left after almost ten years to co-found FUHLROTT ARBEITSRECHT.
Dr. Ley is recommended in WirtschaftsWoche, Handelsblatt and JUVE. He regularly publishes comments on judgments in the BetriebsBerater.
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
Memberships
- Munich Bar Association (MAV)
- German Bar Association (DAV)
- German Bar Association (DAV) – Labor Law Committee
Publications
- Employee does not have to replace agency commission, BB 2023, 2875-2876
- Works council chairman may not be company data protection officer, BB 2023, 2429-2430
- Differences in pay between the sexes require intensive justification, BB 2023, 2112
- Forfeiture of vacation in the event of long-term illness: Tightening of employer obligations, BB 2023, 1533-1534
- A collective agreement may provide for a maximum assignment period for temporary workers of 36 months, BB 2023, 896
- (In)appropriateness of a contractual penalty in the event of termination of the employment relationship by the employee in breach of contract, BB 2023, 832
- Landmark ruling: Employers are legally obliged to record working hours including overtime, BB 2023, 768