Dr. Thomas Griebe formed his own employment law boutique in Hamburg in September of 2012. Previously he was an Equity Partner and International Head of Employment & Pensions at an international business law firm. He advises national and international clients on all questions of employment law. He also specializes in advising US clients, and staffing services and has a large client base of small and medium-sized enterprises. Trained in mediation, Dr. Thomas Griebe also advises companies on conflicts with their employees, works councils and unions as either a mediator or a consultant. He is a Senior Advisor to the International Employment Law Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA) and a member of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA), the International Bar Association (IBA) and the employment law attorneys' working group of the German Bar Association. He is a lecturer on employment law at Fresenius University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg.

Languages
  • German, English

One of the »Best Lawyers in Germany« for 2019 in the area of employment law

Handelsblatt/Best Lawyers

»confident, very entrepreneurial and internationally well-connected«

Competitor about Dr. Thomas Griebe, Juve 2018/2019

 

Focal Points

  • Individual employment law
  • Collective employment law
  • Outsourcing
  • Restructuring
  • Transaction plans
  • Redundancies
  • Reconcilement of interests and social compensation plans
  • Working time and remuneration models
  • Occupational co-determination rights
  • Collective bargaining law
  • Part-time work
  • SME consulting
  • Advising US companies
  • Business Mediation

Career

  • Lecturer on employment law Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg
  • Founded Griebe Rechtsanwälte, 2012
  • Business mediator since 2006
  • Attorney specializing in employment law since 2001
  • Attorney with the international business law firm of Taylor Wessing, 1995–2012, partner since 1998
  • Research associate at the University of Hamburg, 1992–1995
  • Hamburg police force member, 1983–1988

Education

  • Hamburg Police Department
  • Studied law in Hamburg, Göttingen, Houston and Singapore
  • Scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
  • Research associate to Prof. Dr. Dr. Hein Kötz, holder of the chair for International Private and Procedural Law and Comparative Law at the University of Hamburg
  • Graduated from the University of Osnabrück, 1996

Blog articles

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Terminated after a »secret« examination of your Internet browser?

March 2016
– Blog article by Dr. Thomas Griebe

In its ruling on 01/14/2016, Ref. 5 Sa 657/15, the Berlin-Brandenburg LAG (Higher Labor Court) declared that an extraordinary termination due to excessive private use of the Internet was justified. The employer's sole piece of evidence was a list of the Internet sites accessed by the employee via his work computer's browser. The employee had not agreed to the secret examination.

Federal Labor Tribunal on the burden of proof for work time accounts: You only get paid for approved work hours

March 2016
– Blog article by Dr. Sabrina Fasholz, LL.M. (Bristol) and Dr. Thomas Griebe

Keeping lists may be good for card players, but is not enough for overtime remuneration. Employees' own records of overtime hours worked are not enough. They also have to prove that they were ordered to work them. The Federal Labor Tribunal (BAG) has now applied the same regulation to work time accounts.

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News

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vangard partners once again named »Best Lawyers«

June 2016

As in previous years, vangard partners Dr. Matthias Kast, Dr. Thomas Griebe, Dr. Stefan Röhrborn and Dr. Oliver Grimm received the award »Best Lawyer in Germany« in the field of labor law.

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Lectures & Publications

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Germany’s Labor System Would Be Difficult to Import to U.S.

Publication by Dr. Thomas Griebe
October 2019

Article with quotation by Dr. Thomas Griebe, Wall Street Journal

Labour Law Update

Lecture by Dr. Thomas Griebe
May 2018

ACC Europe Annual Conference 2018, 21.05.2018, Paris, Link

Employment Law in A Global Landscape: What You Need to Know

Lecture by Dr. Thomas Griebe
November 2017

Littler Live Webcast, 30th November 2017 at 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm (ET), Link

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