Labour Rigths In Germany

Dismissal: Any dismissal need a warning and only serious cases need not need of any kind of warning.  Independent of the sizes of the work place any dismissal  if you work in a place less than six months you need two weeks in advance, and more than six months you need 4 weeks.

Not payments of wages: If the employer has not pay for a period (because Germany is a federal systems all the labor laws are different from province to province), the employee can stop working and the employer have to pay for the period of the stop work.

Health Insurance and Pension: The employer is obligated to pay for half of the health insurance and pensions.

Minimum wage: As mention before, there is not minimum wage in Germany.

Breaks: After six hour of work there is an entitlement of 30 minutes of brake and can be break in 15 minutes.

Overtime and night shift: The employ does not obligate to work overtime if is not agree in initial contract, the work day is 8 hours (excluded the breaks), can be ask to work temporally up to 10 hours, but the day work cannot be more than 8 hours.  Night shift consider over time, and can be pay is a premium.

Freelance: The Freelancer most be pay a month after the invoice is issue, and rights from health care and pensions does not applied except if the employer get involved how the work is accomplished, the is consider a employee. 

Sick Pay: If employ is sick the employer most pays up to six weeks, and after the health insurances pays a percent. The most inform the employer immediately if you work 4 weeks and second day most have a Medical referral.

Rest: Employee is entitling of 4 weeks of pay leave a year, and most give 11 hours of rest between shifts. Sundays and public holydays are days of rest except some sectors like hotels and restaurants workers.

Parental Leave: Female employees cannot be fire from the beginning of pregnancy until 4 months after the birth; in this case the employer and the province cover the wages (dependent on the province).  The employee can take last six weeks of the pregnancy and must take pay leave for eight weeks.  Both parents can take together 14 weeks of maternity leave and paternity leaves after the birth, which receive a subsidize (Provincial and Federal) and cannot be fire.