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Employer did not accept resignation in Germany
I'm currently working for a company in Germany and the notice period is two weeks. I sent my resignation via E-mail.
They told me after 3 days that they did not accept it because I need to send it ...
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Gym Membership Extraordinary Termination when Flaws were already present before signing?
I'm going to a local gym in my town for about half a year. At the time I signed the contract I didn't have a car and bus or train is terrible where I live, so I had no other gym to choose from. The ...
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I signed a second work contracts in Germany, without checking my first contract
I am working in a full-time job and I signed another part-time job for 10 hours per week with a university in Berlin.
After I signed the part-time contract I found in my first contract that I have to ...
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Tenant not vacating property(GERMANY)
-See below for German version-
A tenant's fixed term rental contract has expired, yet on the first day after the expiration, when keys were supposed to be returned, the tenant has not made any ...
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The controlling language in German employment contracts
I am about to be employed in Germany under an American company which has a branch office in Germany.
Recently I got a contract from them that has side-by-side translations with German on the left ...
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German Rental Contract error. Can landlord back charge 18months?
Berlin Landlord made an error in the contract, and now wants all tenants to correct the error by paying sum's going back 18months. Can they?
A little more detail:
A friend moved into a new apartment ...
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Fine without any reminder, after not having honored contract obligations
This is a follow-up to this question:
Fine and contract-renew after NOT receiving an invoice
A year has passed, and the organization behaved exactly the same. They sent me a fine to pay, without ...
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What is a 'arbeitnehmerueberlassung' German working contract?
I've been a contractor/consultant for years - I'm familiar with the issues tax authorities have across Europe with regards to consultants being considered as an employee or as a contractor but I have ...
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Will I have problems if I accept two job offers in two different EU countries?
I am non-European and I have never lived in France. I recently got a job offer from a company in France and I signed it. A few weeks later, I received another job offer from a company in Germany.
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Is a verbal agreement to start the hiring process (i.e., "preparing the contract") binding?
Is a verbal agreement to start the hiring process with a German company in Germany binding by the German law? In other words, does one have to sign the contract once it is ready?
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Fine and contract-renew after NOT receiving an invoice
First things first, let's provide a little bit of background to my question:
3 Years ago I moved to Germany, where I pay my taxes. Since the first year I didn't understand very much about this topic, ...
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I'm in USA, seeking to license to German manufacturer. Should I worry about using a German NDA?
I am working to license a technology for which I have US patent pending (I am in USA). I have a potential licensee in Germany. I would like to work with an NDA, not least to protect the option of ...
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German Employment Law - Contractual penalties for not commencing a job
I have signed a contract with a German company, and one of the clauses says that if I am unable to start working for them, in the case of intentionally resigning, then they would charge me one month ...
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Is contract valid if only one side signed it?
The company sent me the contract, I signed it and returned back to them, so now they should sign and send me the copy.
In Germany, what if they decide to not sign and withdraw the process. What one ...
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DHL lost packet, Sender does not answer
The Scenario
I bought a notebook online from a private person. As he lives to far away, we agreed on he sending it via DHL. I paid the money, he took the packet to the mail office, but the packet got ...
