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Dr. Werner Walk
Lawyer
Partner
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CMS Hasche Sigle
Schöttlestraße 8
70597 Stuttgart, Germany
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Dr Werner Walk advises national and international clients on all questions of individual employment and collective employment law. The main focus of his activities is providing advice on restructuring and outsourcing measures, on personnel reductions as well as in-house collective bargaining agreements and corporate rescue agreements. He advises his clients in negotiations with (trade) unions and works councils. Another (main) focus of his work is corporate co-determination and company pension schemes
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Legal education at the University of Tübingen and Munich. 1993 - 1994 Research assistant at the chair of civil law and employment law under Prof. Dr Eduard Picker, Tübingen. Doctorate in employment law. Lawyer with CMS Hasche Sigle, Stuttgart, (formerly Sigle Loose Schmidt-Diemitz) since 1995. Partner since 2000. Member of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA), the International Bar Association (IBA) and the employment law committee of the German Bar Association. He teaches employment and labour law at the University of Tübingen.
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- "Dealing with Low Performers", von Rundstedt & Partner, Stuttgart, 15.12.2011 and 12.01.2012
- "How to remunerate the best employees", Frankfurt, 31.05.2011
- "How to regulate flexibility in salary and manage personnel using target agreements", von Rundstedt & Partner, Stuttgart, 25.05.2011
- "Private email and internet use at the workplace", Wirtschaftsjunioren Stuttgart, 28.03.2011
- "The works council: finding the right approach", von Rundstedt & Partner, Stuttgart, 29.09.2010
- "Short time work - what happens next?", von Rundstedt & Partner, Stuttgart, 15.06.2010
- "Best practices to protect valuable business, customer/client and supplier relationships", IBA Meeting, 19.02.2010, New Delhi
- "Transfer of business when networks are taken over", 1st Stuttgart Energy Law Day, 26.01.2010
- "Flexible remuneration options", von Rundstedt & Partner, Stuttgart, 21.01.2010
- "Negotiating agreements on reconciliation of interests and social compensation plans during the economic crisis", von Rundstedt & Partner, Stuttgart, 19.10.2009
- "Use of transfer companies for reducing personnel", client in-house seminar CMS Hasche Sigle, Stuttgart, 21.10.2009
- "Current developments in dismissals for operational reasons", von Rundstedt & Partner GmbH, Stuttgart, 20.05.2009
- "Negotiating agreements on the reconciliation of interests and social compensation plans", HRnetworx, Stuttgart, 19.05.2009
- "Reducing personnel costs - short-, mid- and long term options", von Rundstedt & Partner, Stuttgart, 10.02.2009
- "Reducing personnel costs - possibilities under employment law and works constitution law" Economy on a downturn - opportunities in times of crisis", Stuttgart, 05.02.2009
- "The works council: finding the right approach", HRnetworx, Stuttgart, 16.09.2008
- "Reconciliation of interests and social compensation plan", Tübingen University, 28.04.2008 and 10.11.2008
- "Employment law update - what's new in case law", for members of the Deutsche Ge-sellschaft für Personalführung e.V. (DGFP), Stuttgart, 26.02.2008
- "Ending membership of employers' association – a panacea ?", von Rundstedt & Partner, 30.10.2007
- "New developments regarding dismissal without notice including dismissal on grounds of strong suspicion", client in-house seminar CMS Hasche Sigle, 09.10.2007
- "Drafting employment contracts", von Rundstedt & Partner, Stuttgart, 25.09.2007
- "Update: Termination agreements", von Rundstedt & Partner, Stuttgart 26.07.2007
- "Update Employment Law: Current developments in case law", Chamber of Commerce Stuttgart - Region, 07.12.2006
- "The General Equal Treatment Act- legal basis and recommended strategies" - Client in-house seminar CMS Hasche Sigle, 17.10.2006
- "Current employment law: new case law from the Federal Employment Court on exclu-sion clauses, inclusion of tariff agreements, termination of contracts and employment relationships", Seminarzirkel, Munich, 13.10.2006
- "Update: Termination agreements", von Rundstedt & Partner, Stuttgart 15.09.2006
- "Protection of Confidential Company Business Information", International Bar Associa-tion, Annual Meeting, Chicago, September 2006
- "The General Equal Treatment Act and its practical implications", Tax consultants fo-rum, Zollernalb, June 2006
- "The German Works Constitution Act: new developments", 5th CMS employment law congress, 18.05.2006
- "Current developments in dismissals on operational grounds", client in-house seminar, Stuttgart, 11.10.2005
- "E-mails in every-day company operations: a blessing or a curse?", IHK Esslingen, April 2005; IHK Göppingen, 18.10.2005, IHK Ludwigsburg, 08.05.2006
- "Legal aspects of IT security", IHK Stuttgart, 28.01.2005
- "Internet and e-mail in German employment law", client in-house seminar, Stuttgart, October 2004
- "Corporate social responsibility", International Bar Association, Annual Meeting, Auck-land, October 2004
- "Protection against discrimination in German employment law", client in-house seminar, Chemnitz, February 2004
- "Employment Law meets Europe: the influence of EU directives on German employ-ment law", German Bar Association, Stuttgart, February 2004
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- "Adieu Dominotheorie - Was bei Massenentlassungen in Zukunft zu beachten ist", Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht (AuA) 2007, p. 465 ff
- "Annahmefrist für Angebote im Rahmen einer Änderungskündigung", Betriebs-Berater 2007, p. 1791 ff
- "Beteiligungsrechte des Betriebsrats bei der Anwendung des AGG", Betriebs-Berater (BB) 2008, p. 2514
- "Betriebsrentenanpassung bei Abwicklungs- oder Rentnergesellschaft", Anmerkung zu BAG vom 26.10.2010 - 3 AZR 502/08, BetriebsBerater 2011, p. 702 f
- "Die Kündigungserklärung und ihre Tücken", Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht (AuA) 2008, p. 346 ff
- "Entgeltflexibilisierung als Weg aus der Krise", Betriebs-Berater (BB) 2010, p. 373
- "Konzernmitbestimmung ohne Konzern / Zur Reichweite des § 5 Abs. 3 MitbestG", RdA 2009, p. 373
- "Personalabbau durch den Einsatz von Transfergesellschaften", Staatsanzeiger Baden-Württemberg, Mai 2009
- "Was heißt hier verhältnismäßig?", Form + Werkzeug, Heft 6 2010, p. 23
- "Wer klaut, der fliegt – oder etwa doch nicht? Das Problem der Bagatellkündigung in der aktuellen Rechtsprechung", Zeitschrift Jura Studium & Examen, Ausgabe 1 2011, p. 26 ff
- "Zu den Beteiligungsrechten des Betriebsrats im Rahmen des AGG", Betriebs-Berater (BB) 2010, p. 1917 ff
- "Zur Frage der Wirksamkeit einer Kündigung wegen Arbeitsverweigerung aus Glaubensgründen", (BAG, Urteil vom 24.02.2011 – 2 AZR 636/09 (LAG Schleswig-Holstein, ArbG Kiel), Zeitschrift Jura Studium & Examen, Ausgabe 1 2011, p. 152 ff
- „BAG: Anspruch auf Herausgabe von Geschäftsunterlagen wird nicht von Ausgleichsklausel im Aufhebungsvertrag erfasst“, GWR 2012, S. 161
- „BAG: Unwirksamkeit eines Aufhebungsvertrages mit dem Betriebsveräußerer wegen Umgehung des § 613 a BGB bei Verlosung von Arbeitsplätzen“, GWR 2012, p. 46
- § 616 BGB und Leistungshindernisse in neutraler Sphäre, 1997
- Commentary in Betriebs-Berater 2008, page 561 f. on a BAG decision of 11.12.2007 on applicability of the General Equal Treatment Act on company pension provision 2008
- Global Business Workforce Restructuring (Chapter seven: "Business restructuring issues in Germany"), Kluwer Law International and International Bar Assosiation 2004
- Interessenausgleich und Sozialplan, Sonderheft "Personalmanagement in Krisenzeiten", Zeitschrift Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht 2009, p. 30 ff
- Kommentar zum Urteil des BAG vom 09.07.2008: "Betriebsrisiko - Witterungsabhängiges Unternehmen", Betriebs-Berater (BB) 2009, p. 54
- Kündigung und Aufhebung von Arbeitsverhältnissen, Kompendium (CD-Rom), Haufe-Verlag 2004
- Zur Rechtswirksamkeit und Angemessenheit von Übergangsgeldzusagen in Vorstandsdienstverträgen, Festschrift Eduard Picker zum 70. Geburtstag 2010
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