Katharina Bodendieck
Katharina Bodendieck advises employers and executives in all areas of individual and collective employment law.
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Born and raised in Bremen, Katharina Bodendieck studied law at the Georg August University in Göttingen. After her studies, she worked as a legal research assistant in a law firm specializing in social law in Hanover.
Katharina Bodendieck acquired further knowledge of employment law during her legal clerkship in the human resources department of a well-known nationwide operating company, as well as in the employment law department of a renowned international law firm. She also worked as a research assistant for that law firm before being admitted to the bar.
In addition to her client work, Katharina Bodendieck is a lecturer in employment law at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and the author of various specialist publications.
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
- Video recording is subject to prohibition of use as evidence – comment on judgment on LAG Lower Saxony of 6.7.2022, 8 Sa 1149/20, Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsrecht (GWR) 2023, p. 17
- No entitlement to the implementation of a bEM – Judgement note on BAG of 7.9.2021, 9 AZR 571/20, Neue Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht-RechtsprechungsReport (NZA-RR) 2022, p. 161
- Provision of data copies requires a sufficiently specific claim – Judgement note on BAG v. 27.4.2021, 2 AZR 342/20, Neue Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht – RechtsprechungsReport (NZA-RR) 2021, p. 455
- “Virtual” joint operation not a change in operations – decision note on LAG Berlin-Brandenburg of 10.12.2020, 26 TaBVGa 1498/20, Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsrecht (GWR) 2021, p. 171
- A night work bonus is also appropriate if it falls below 25% – comment on the judgment of the BAG of 15.7.2020, 10 AZR 123/19, GWR 2021, p. 18
- Crowdworking: a discontinued model or a form of work of the future? – ArbeitsrechtAktuell (ArbRAktuell) 2020, p. 639