Employment contract. An employment relationship between employer and employee is established by the employment contract, in which mutual main and secondary obligations are regulated. While the employee is obliged to provide the contractually owed work, the employer must pay the employee the correspondingly contractually agreed wage or salary. We are happy to also examine your employment contract so that you know exactly what you are entering into and don’t experience unpleasant surprises later.
Does an employment contract have to be in writing?
An employment contract is in principle valid in any form, also orally or by conclusive action. However, the Evidence Act (NachwG) obliges the employer to record the essential contractual conditions in writing, sign them and hand them to the employee at the latest one month after the start of employment.