Florian Garden
Florian Garden advises German and international companies, managing directors and executives in all areas of individual and collective labour law.
Florian Garden studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg. During his studies, he worked as a research assistant at a national law firm and dealt with labor law issues.
Florian Garden began his career as a lawyer in the Hamburg office of a major international law firm. There he advised on all labor law issues, in particular international groups on their German market entry across the entire spectrum, with a focus on industrial constitutional law issues.
Before founding FUHLROTT ARBEITSRECHT, Florian Garden was a partner at FHM in Hamburg, where he was responsible for the labor law department.
Florian Garden is also a lecturer at a Hamburg university for labor law and a regular speaker at training events for clients.
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
- Hamburg Bar Association (HAV)
- German Bar Association (DAV) – Labor Law Committee
Publications
- Commentary on the chapter “Employee Liability” – Tschöpe, Arbeitsrechtshandbuch, 13th edition, Cologne 2023
- No claim under works constitution law for implementation in the case of performance determination at equitable discretion – Judgement comment on BAG of 23.2.2021, 1 ABR 12/20, Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsrecht (GWR) 2021, p. 268
- Comparative settlement of the claim for information under data protection law – Neue Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht (NZA) 2021, p. 530
- Obstruction of internal investigations as grounds for termination – jurisPR-StrafR 6/2021 Note 5
- Obligation for employers to record working hours follows directly from Art. 31 para. 2 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (Judgement comment on ArbG Emden of 20.2.2020, 2 Ca 94/19) – Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsrecht (GWR) 2020, p. 232
- Update minimum wage: Overview of case law 2019 – ArbeitsrechtAktuell (ArbRAktuell) 2020, p. 132