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Irene Taut

Solicitor, specialist solicitor for employment law

Irene Taut is a specialist solicitor for employment law and head of the employment law department at Lüders Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB.

She advises and represents employers, managing directors, executives and employees in all matters relating to individual and collective labour law, both in and out of court. In addition to litigation, her practice focuses on the drafting of employment contracts and works agreements.

Before joining LW·P Lüders Warneboldt, she worked as a specialist lawyer for employment law in a law firm specialising in employment law and as a corporate lawyer and advisor for employment law in a metalworking company.

Schwerpunkte

Advice and representation in the termination of employment and service relationships, in the event of operational changes and transfers of undertakings
Litigation
Drafting of employment and service contracts
Drafting and negotiation of works agreements – including in conciliation committees
Advice on employment and social security law issues relating to the appointment and employment of managing directors, as well as legal representation of managing directors

Vita

2006–2015: Studied law with first legal examination at Leibniz University Hannover and legal clerkship with second legal examination at the Higher Regional Court of Celle.
Admitted to the bar in 2015, specialist lawyer for labour law since 2019.
2015 – 2017 Lawyer at a medium-sized law firm in Hanover.
2017–2024: Lawyer and specialist lawyer for labour law at a law firm specialising in labour law in Hannover.
2024–2025 Labour law consultant and in-house solicitor at a metalworking company in Wittingen
2024 – 2025 Of counsel at a law firm specialising in labour law.
Since 05/2025 Lawyer and specialist lawyer for labour law at Lüders Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB

Mitgliedschaften

German Bar Association (DAV)

Publikationen

Monographs
- Labour Law Form and Procedure Manual – Schaub, 2023 edition (16th edition in preparation for 2025), published by C.H. Beck
- beck-personal-portal.de – Co-author of the main keywords:
  - Employees – Right of appeal; Occupational health and safety
  - Employment relationship – Managing partner
  - Employment relationship – chain employment relationship
  - Managing director – distinction between employment and appointment
  - Managing director – Appointment as managing director
  - Managing director – social security/income tax/income tax liability/place of jurisdiction
  - Managing director; managing partner, company pension, entitlement
  - Sample contract for managing director appointment

Essays
- Does the standard for the application for dissolution pursuant to Sections 9, 10 KSchG need to be corrected? Schrader/Klagges/Taut, RdA 2024, 89
Judgment comments
- LSG Lower Saxony-Bremen, judgement of 10 October 2023 – L 16 KR 301/22
  
  Contribution obligation of a capital payment to statutory health insurance, ArbRAktuell 2024, 47
- OVG Bremen, decision of 22 February 2023 – OVG 6 LP
  128/22
  Co-determination of the staff council in the ordering of distance learning, ArbRAktuell2023, 217
- BAG, judgement of 27 January 2022 – 6 AZR
  216/21
  BAG: Adjustment allowance under the remuneration regulations for teachers – time-limited application requirement, ArbRAktuell2022, 313
- BAG, judgement of 25 November 2021 – 6 AZR
  141/21
  Protection against reduction in the event of multiple receipt of income security under the TV UmBW, ArbRAktuell 2022, 98
- Hesse Regional Labour Court, judgement of 24 July 2020 – 14 Sa 264/19
  
  Special protection against dismissal for works council members after a contestable election, ArbR 2021, 279
- LAG Cologne, judgement of 2 December 2019 – 2 SaGa
  20/19
  No right to injunctive relief from invalid "catch-all clause", ArbR 2020, 395
- KG Berlin, decision of 26 June 2018 – 6 W
  36/18
  Industry-wide pension fund as a social institution within the meaning of access to legal recourse to the labour courts, ArbR 2018, 408
- BAG, judgement of 25 January 2018 – 6 AZR 791/16
  Discrimination
  against domestic workers in grade classification, ArbR 2018, 203
- Federal Labour Court, judgment of 25 April 2017 – 1 AZR
  427/15
  Remuneration in accordance with existing company remuneration principles, ArbR 2017, 465

Vorträge

12.2022: rak.seminare Celle & Oldenburg
Interim legal protection in (individual) labour law
05.2020/13.05.2020: German Lawyers'
Academy
Online seminar, termination agreements and severance agreements – optimisation and error avoidance (blocks 1 and 2)
03/2019 – 08/2019 (summer semester) Lecturer in labour law (2 SWS) at Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts – Economics and Computer Science
05.2019: Labour law breakfast DEKRA Arbeit GmbH
Reference
09.2017: Client seminar

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Beiträge

Termination via ChatGPT: 5 examples of why this is a bad idea, handwerk.com: https://www.handwerk.com/5-gruende-gegen-eine-kuendigung-per-chatgpt (16 February 2023)
Employers do not have to accept online sick leave, handwerk.com: https://www.handwerk.com/arbeitgeber-muessen-online-au-nicht-akzeptieren (05.07.2021)
Protection against dismissal in small businesses – what employers need to know, handwerk.com: https://www.handwerk.com/kuendigungsschutz-im-kleinbetrieb-infos-fuer-arbeitgeber (10 June 2021)

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