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Bernd Pirpamer

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Languages: German

Bernd Pirpamer is a Partner in the Labor and Employment practice in our Munich office.

He is Head of Industrial Relations in Germany and leads the team advising on collective labor relations.

Primarily, Bernd provides advice on all matters related to works constitution and collective bargaining law. He provides legal and strategic advice to companies, owners, supervisory boards and the respective executives regarding the negotiation and drafting of collective working conditions and conflicts. This includes company agreements on remuneration and working time systems, company collective agreements, or collective agreements between a union and an employer association.

Bernd advises companies throughout entire restructuring processes, on conciliation and arbitration boards, on transfers of business and with respect to entering into or changing collective bargaining commitments. This also includes providing legal and strategic advice to companies and associations, which are faced with industrial action.

In addition to matters of law, he also advises companies on strategic, conceptual and communicative matters arising from the cooperation with the employees, the different works council committees, and trade unions.

Bernd represents companies and managers before labor courts throughout Germany.

Moreover, he is regularly involved in in-house workshops for executives and management teams and holds lectures on labor law-related topics.

Bernd has been working as a lawyer since 1999. Before joining Eversheds Sutherland in 2011, he worked for 10 years as an in-house lawyer for the Bavarian employers' associations VBM and BayME in the collective agreements department and in the area of collective working conditions. 

Bernd’s recent experience includes:

  • ongoing advice to industrial and medium-sized companies regarding collective bargaining commitments, specifically on entering into, changing and terminating collective bargaining commitments
  • design of a Germany-wide collective company agreement for an industrial company
  • restructuring and reorganization of business divisions of several companies in the manufacturing industry area of automotive and transport
  • collective company agreement negotiations for medium-sized family businesses
  • collective reorganization agreement in the automotive supply sector
  • provision of specialist opinions in collective labor law conflicts
  • regular provision of in-house labor and employment law trainings for all management

Bernd's publications:

  • Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht 2013, Das Teilnahmerecht an der Betriebsversammlung
  • Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht 2014, Die Rechtsberatung des Betriebsrates
  • ZAAR Vortragsreihe 2018, Arbeitsrechtliche Öffnungsklauseln – Bedeutung, Gestaltung, Reichweite
  • ZAAR Vortragsreihe 2014. Streikabwehr im einstweiligen Rechtsschutz
  • Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht 2014, Abwehr von Warnstreiks
  • Handelsblatt 2018: Beitrag zur Metall-Tarifrunde 2018 „Das faule Ei im Korb“
  • Handelsblatt 2018: „Arbeitgeber dürfen Streikbrechern hohe Prämien zahlen“
  • Haufe Personal Magazin 2017: Beitrag zur Tarifbindung und Tarifflucht
  • The Legal 500 Deutschland Recommended Lawyer 2021
  • Recognized as "Star Lawyer 2020" in Germany by Acritas
  • Handelsblatt/"Best Lawyers in Germany" lists Bernd among the best labor and employment lawyers for 2019
  • Acritas Star Independently Rated Lawyer 2020
Bernd Pirpamer

Partner

Rechtsanwalt, Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht

Bernd Pirpamer

Partner

Rechtsanwalt, Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht

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