Marko Vraetz

Employment Law

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Marko Vraetz

Experience

Marko Vraetz advises and represents national and international companies in all areas of individual and collective labour law. His work includes in particular the drafting, implementation and termination of employment and service contracts. Marko Vraetz also advises companies on issues relating to the contractual arrangements for deploying external personnel (freelancers, outsourcing, contracts for work and services) and on procedures for determining social security status.

Marko Vraetz is a member of the Latin America Desk at Oppenhoff.

 

Education

Marko Vraetz has been a lawyer at Oppenhoff since 2023. He studied law at the University of Bonn, specialising in labour law. He then worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute for Labour Law and Social Security Law at the University of Bonn, where he is currently completing his doctorate on a topic relating to social security law and platform work. During his legal internship, Marko Vraetz worked at the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in Berlin and in the labour law department of the law firm CMS in Cologne and Madrid.

Marko Vraetz is member of the German Bar Association (DAV), the Cologne Bar Association (KAV) and the Employment Law Working Group of the German Bar Association.

 

Marko Vraetz

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German, English, Spanish

Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 23
50668 Cologne
T +49 221 2091 623
M +49 151 7031 4439

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Articles and Essays

Wie das EuGH-Urteil die Zukunft des Mindestlohns in Deutschland beeinflusst [How the ECJ ruling will affect the future of the minimum wage in Germany]
FAZ Einspruch, dated December 17, 2025 (in collaboration with Dr. Martin Nebeling)

Kein europäischer Mindestlohn zum Urteil des EuGH v. 11.11.2025 - Az. C-19/23 [No European minimum wage on the ECJ ruling dated November 11, 2025 - Ref. C-19/23]
Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, dated December 10, 2025 (in collaboration with Dr. Martin Nebeling)

Sozialversicherungspflicht bei Ein-Personen-Kapitalgesellschaften [Social security obligation for one-person corporations]
DER BETRIEB dated 22 April 2024, Issue 17, p. 1075 (in collaboration with Cornelia-Cristina Scupra)

Aufhebungsverträge – wann droht eine Sperrzeit? [Cancellation Agreements – when is there a risk of a blocking period?]
AnwZert ArbR 18/2022 Note 2 (in collaboration with Patricia Jares)

Arbeitnehmerähnliche Selbstständige – Fremdkörper im Arbeits- und Sozialversicherungsrecht? [Employee-like self-employed workers - foreign bodies in employment and social security law?]
Seiwerth/Witschen (publisher), Besonderheiten des Arbeitsrechts [Peculiarities of employment law], Nomos, Baden-Baden 2021, pp. 203-227

Die Crowdworker-Entscheidung des BAG – Neuausrichtung der arbeitsrechtlichen Statusfeststellung? [The crowdworker decision of the German Federal Labour Court – revision of status determination under employment law?]
ZTR 2021, Vol. 9, pp. 500-503

Books and Legal Commentaries

Das Recht auf Homeoffice in der Pandemie [Entitlement to home office in a pandemic]
Nomos, Baden-Baden 2021, p. 160 (in collaboration with Laura Visser and Philipp Voigt)