This book helps you better understand labor law. This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals of labor law. The focus is on practical relevance, ensuring a quick entry into the essential legal applications for the economy. Tim Jesgarzewski imparts solid foundational knowledge, enabling you to independently formulate and solve legal problems. As even simple business matters increasingly require legal review, legal knowledge is indispensable for executives. Therefore, this book is aimed at decision-makers in companies as well as students and lecturers in business administration and economic law. Additionally, it is suitable for exam preparation and as a practical aid.

The book covers all facets of labor law. The reader receives an extensive overview of the basic knowledge of labor law. This includes, among other things: the legal foundations of the employment relationship, collective labor law, and individual labor law. While the author first addresses the history of labor law and its distinction from other legal areas, he subsequently explains the legal foundations of an employment relationship.

In addition, the labor law book deals with collective labor law. Tim Jesgarzewski shows what rights labor unions have, for example, in relation to trade unions. He then discusses the regulations of individual labor law. This includes topics such as: vacation rights, content control of employment contracts, discrimination protection in the employment relationship, continued payment of wages, company pension schemes, occupational safety law, and procedural law. In the second edition, the current legal situation and the case law that has emerged in the meantime have been taken into account.