22.02.2022 | answered by Andreas Scholz
Hello, I have terminated my apartment lease for the 28th of February and cannot agree with the landlord on a time for the apartment handover. They can only offer me a time before 3pm because their working hours are only until 4pm. However, I work unt...
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14.09.2020 | answered by Jasmin Pesla
Hello,
my son had a sports accident and had to undergo surgery twice on his collarbone. Since the doctor said that this area of the bone (plate and screws) will remain a sensitive point for the rest of his life, we have approached the accident insur...
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06.03.2020 | answered by Jasmin Pesla
In August 2019, we changed our tax consultancy firm: from Mr. StB M to StB S. There is a friend (Mrs. G) working there, who took over the firm "StB S" on January 1, 2020.
I had agreed on flat-rate conditions for the accounting with this friend over ...
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09.09.2019 | answered by Jasmin Pesla
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am referring to the Legal Services Act.
It is not uncommon to see people in online forums seeking legal advice without wanting to pay for a proper lawyer.
My questions:
1. Who is committing an administrative offense under the ...
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07.09.2019 | answered by Jasmin Pesla
Hello,
28 years ago, we bought a caravan and a well-built awning on a permanent campsite and took over the lease agreement for the pitch. Subsequently, we received yearly lease agreements from the campsite operator.
Now, the former operator has sold ...
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05.02.2019 | answered by Jasmin Pesla
Dear team,
I am a doctor and I have a big problem. I was in a relationship for about 2 months, the man left me, but unfortunately I was already pregnant at that time. The only way to contact him in the end was through email, so I wrote to him that I...
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29.12.2016 | answered by Jan Wilking
Hello
For about 19 years, I have been working partly in field sales for a company. For 14 years, I was provided with a company car for private use, including fuel and a 1% rule. About 4 years ago, the company cars were removed and instead a car allo...
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08.03.2016 | answered by Jan Wilking
Good day, I have recently created a website for my company with xxx-yyy.de (exact page attached). There was already a website in the form of xxxyyy.de, without the hyphen. The owner of that website does not have a business domain there, but only a 1&...
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14.01.2016 | answered by Jan Wilking
Hello,
I am a development engineer at a semiconductor manufacturer (around 900 people) for 33 years, 60 years old, and I would like to work only 3 days a week in the future, so I am planning to submit a request for part-time work. I am familiar with...
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10.12.2015 | answered by Jan Wilking
I sold my condominium approximately 4 months ago. There were a few small defects which I have since fixed. It turned out afterwards that two sockets in the bedroom are not working, so I offered to have them repaired and cover the costs. The apartment...
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29.07.2015 | answered by Stefan Steininger
I have recently started working at a music school. Now I have given a trial lesson to a potential customer for the music school. There is no signed contract between this potential customer and the music school. For various reasons, this customer has ...
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29.05.2015 | answered by Jan Wilking
I am a civil servant of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. At the age of 65, I was retired. That was in 2004. Since then, I have been working as a self-employed person with a writing office as a business owner....
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11.01.2015 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Dear Mr. Lawyer,
I have a new client who would like me to handle the maintenance and management of his website. The website was created by a different agency. Am I allowed to do this? Does the creator of the website still have rights to the content,...
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15.12.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
We rented a commercial property as of December 1st, 2014. However, the warehouse and office were not available on December 1st, 2014. Therefore, we had to rent another warehouse as a temporary solution.
As we gradually began moving in, by December 1...
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14.10.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
Dear Sir or Madam,
I participated in a Gbr in 2010. The business did not go as expected. Unfortunately, my personal savings were used up faster than hoped. I borrowed 2500,-€ privately from an acquaintance in 2010 for another investment in the compa...
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26.06.2014 | answered by Stefan Steininger
Our employees receive a supplement for Sunday and night work; these are social security and tax-free. According to a ruling by the Federal Labour Court (BAG), this supplement should also be paid in case of illness. Does this apply in general? Is ther...
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03.06.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
And once again, "heating turned off":
It is to be assumed that our landlord turned off the heating about 4 weeks ago due to various disputes. Absolutely nothing is working, all radiators remain cold day and night - hot water is still functioning. Ho...
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22.05.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
There seems to be no peace....
... therefore we will soon be availing ourselves of the services of a local lawyer. However, before that, a very important, as I find it, exciting question. Just now we received a fax (for the first time) from a lawyer...
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22.05.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
And once again, "landlord problem":
Within 2 weeks, our heating system has failed for the second time. It has now been four days without usable heating, although hot water is still working. While it is currently very warm outside, the warmth does no...
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08.05.2014 | answered by Jasmin Pesla
It takes and takes no end...
...Dear Sir or Madam, and every day the groundhog greets... that's how I feel about the circumstances. I'll try to keep it short: There have been disputes with our landlady for several weeks, of a personal nature, which ...
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17.12.2013 | answered by Jan Wilking
The text is about a question in labor law. A small to medium-sized company is to be sold to a new owner. The current (still) owner is now presenting a declaration to his employees for signature, with the following content:
"I declare myself willing ...
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10.07.2013 | answered by Dr. Danjel-Philippe Newerla
I have been working for almost 13 years at the German branch of an international airline. Since September 11th (2001), things have been constantly declining in the industry. In 2001, the company had 22,000 employees worldwide, but now there are only ...
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21.05.2013 | answered by Jan Wilking
There has been a dispute with my neighbor for years over his 3-4m high hedge at the property boundary. A lawsuit has been ongoing since 2009. In October 2010, the court determined a height of 2m to be maintained by December 21 of each year. The hedge...
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23.02.2013 | answered by Bernhard Müller
Hello,
My brother has been employed in an insurance company for 23 years. Now, for unclear reasons, he is supposed to be "transferred" to a subsidiary, in a completely different area within the same city, starting from April 1, 2013, which is in jus...
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06.06.2012 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Hello,
I urgently need your advice. I am permanently employed and my company is paying for my MBA studies for the next 2 years. For the past year, I have been systematically bullied by my supervisor. Unfortunately, there is no works council in my de...
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