Jens Kirchner advises national and international companies on all aspects of labour and employment law. In addition, he focuses on national and cross-border restructurings, acquisitions and outsourcing measures.

He has extensive experience in negotiations with works councils on co-determination rights and on enforcing operational changes requiring a balance of interests and social compensation plans. Furthermore, he also has experience with complex transfers of business, company's pension schemes, codes of conducts, issues of data protection, and with the secondment of employees to foreign countries.

Jens advises companies in the technology, metal, chemical, medical, telecommunication, aviation and automotive industries as well as in the banking and insurance sector.

Dr Sascha Morgenroth, Counsel at DLA Piper

Sascha Morgenroth is a certified professional for employment and labour law (Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht) and advises national and international companies in all aspects of collective labour and individual employment law.

His experience involves national and cross-border restructurings, acquisitions, transfer of undertakings, negotiations with works councils regarding co-determination with respect to operational changes on balance of interests and social plans, mass dismissals, co-determination at board level in case of cross-border transformations, service relationships with managing directors and board-members, employee data protection law, employee secondments and employment of foreign employees in Germany.

Tim Marshall, Partner and Joint Global Head of Employment at DLA Piper

Tim Marshall is experienced in all areas or employment law, including senior executive restraint, team poaching and confidentiality issues.

Tim also advises on the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions including large-scale restructuring programmes, and contract variation exercises. He provides strategic advice on boardroom disputes and has been involved in numerous high-profile cases involving City of London institutions.

Tim is joint global head of the firm's Employment group. The group consists of over 300 lawyers globally with resources across Europe, Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Americas. The team is one of the largest in the world and focuses on the strategic aims of clients in the management and reorganisation of their people resources with extensive experience in handling complex, politically sensitive employment-related matters, including multi-jurisdictional employment related projects.

In this book specialised employment lawyers from around the globe provide a practical, business-oriented and accessible guide to key employment and labour law aspects in national and international transfers of business

The book contains a unique global compilation of the relevant employment and labour law aspects of transfers of business in the European Union, its member states and selected important countries around the world

Comprehensive overviews of relevant case laws and excerpts of relevant statutory provisions offer a practical and informative insight into the respective jurisdictions

The consistent structure of the country chapters enables the reader to easily access and compare the legal situations in different countries

Part I - EU Law and EU Countries:
[...]opean Union Law
by Jens Kirchner and Sascha Morgenroth.-
2. Austria
by Stephan Nitzl and Christian Stuppnig.-
3. Belgium
by Eddy Lievens.-
4. The Czech Republic
by Petr Samec and Markéta Cibulková.-
5. Denmark
by Jonas Enkegaard and Kristine Friis Nolsø.-
6. France
by Philippe Danesi and Marie-Astrid Bethenod.-
7. Germany
by Jens Kirchner and Sascha Morgenroth.-
8. Hungary
by Helga Fehér.-
9. Italy
by Fabrizio Morelli.-
10. The Netherlands
by Hélène Bogaard.-
11. Poland
by Agnieszka Lechman-Filipiak and Katarzyna Magnuska.-
12. Romania
by Monica Georgiadis.-
13. Spain
by Pilar Menor.-
14. Sweden
by Johan Sundberg and Emil Ödling.-
15. United Kingdom
by Tim Marshall and Kate Hodgkiss.-Part II - Non-EU Countries:
16. Russia
by Vladislav Mazur.-
17. Switzerland
by Vincent Carron and Anne Roux-Fouillet.-
18. Turkey
by Melek Onaran Yüksel.-Part III - Middle East and Africa:
19. United Arab Emirates
by Neil Crossley.-
20. South Africa
by Retha Beerman, Aadil Patel and Faan Coetzee.-Part IV - Americas:
21. Brazil by Priscila da Rocha Lago and Thiago Ramos Barbosa.- 22. Canada
by Richard Press.-
23. Mexico
by Maria Rios.-
24. United States of America
by Erin D'Angelo.-Part V - Asia and Pacific:
25. Australia
by Rick Catanzariti.-
26. People's Republic of China
by Johnny Choi, Alan Wang and Vivienne Jin.-
27. Japan
by Lance Miller, Hajime Iwaki, Lawrence Carter and Keiji Nasuda.