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Work outside the workplace environment over the last few months of the pandemic has considerably contributed to the fact that, with the exception of certain sectors, large parts of the German economy have retained their capacity to work despite the lockdown. When it became clear in mid-March 2020 that the country would come to a standstill, the switch to mobile work was undertaken swiftly and on a scale as never seen before. Since then, employees have worked and continue to work to a large extent from home.

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nternationally operating law firm Oppenhoff has won Torsten Krumrey for the newly created role of Head of IT and Digital Transformation. The 53-year-old Krumrey was previously Chief Information Officer / Head of IT at law firm Taylor Wessing and responsible for the German IT team.

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Occupational health and safety is back in focus. The new SARS-CoV2 Occupational Health and Safety Regulation has been cleared and will affect all companies. The German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs (BMAS) cleared the new SARS-CoV2 Occupational Safety Regulation for publication in the Joint Ministerial Gazette yesterday, 11 August 2020. It will enter into force in August 2020.

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Many enterprises that registered short-time work for their entire business in the course of the corona pandemic are currently facing the task of gradually returning to normal operations, possibly limited to individual departments. In order to make this transition easier for employers, the German Federal Employment Agency [Bundesagentur für Arbeit - BA] has regulated that employers have a one-time option until 31 July 2020 to have their original notification of the loss of work for the entire business reinterpreted to apply to individual business departments.

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The leading independent commercial law firm Oppenhoff advised the family owners of CNP on the sale of all group companies of the pharmaceutical group to the private equity investor capiton AG.

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The topic of sustainability is increasingly occupying the world of work, with qualification and vocational training measures also continuously gaining in relevance. The rapid advancement of digitization as a result of the corona pandemic in particular is requiring employers to come up with sustainable concepts for qualification and vocational training measures for their employees in order to ensure their sustainability. The purpose of these measures is to adapt employees’ know-how to the (digital) transformation, so that they can keep up with the constantly increasing requirements.

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In today's Schrems II decision, the ECJ overturns the "Privacy Shield", but declares Standard Contractual Clauses to be effective.

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Following the introduction of the Corona-Warn-App in Germany with some initial difficulties, more and more employers now want to use it to protect their employees. However, employers cannot unilaterally order the mandatory use of the app by employees.

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A recently published decision of the German Federal Court of Justice (BGH) of 28 May 2020 (Az. I ZR 7/16) makes it necessary to modify many cookie banners. Tracking cookies for analysis or marketing purposes on websites require the use of consent management tools. In addition, privacy notices must be adapted.

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The independent German commercial law firm Oppenhoff has advised MVGM, the largest property manager in the Netherlands and top manager for commercial and residential property in Germany, on the acquisition of Mannheim-based property manager VIVANIUM.

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