“Hans Georg Laimer is revered for his “in-depth knowledge of labour law” and his “client-oriented and highly professional approach in and out of court”.”Who is Who Legal 2020
Hans G. Laimer is partner with our firm and is a dedicated specialist in all areas of employment (including benefits, service inventions and pension issues) and industrial relations law.
Hans’ practice encompasses both contentious and non-contentious matters and his client base ranges from small firms to listed multi-national companies across all sectors. His expertise comprises, amongst others, advice on restructuring of businesses and transfers of undertakings, working-time issues, white-collar crime, data protection matters, maternity and paternity issues as well as service inventions and post-termination restrictive covenants.
He regularly assists employers in drafting employment and management contracts, ensuring that the contracts and reward packages offered to employees are designed to incentivise employees in line with the business objectives. Together with his clients, Hans develops industrial relations strategies and defends employers against claims by works council members or employees. He frequently supports his clients in drafting and amending shop agreements and advises his clients on relevant issues in connection with works councils.
Hans is a seasoned litigator and regularly represents clients before Austrian courts, before the Ombuds for Equal Treatment / Disabled Employees and before conciliation boards. He successfully defended employers before employment tribunals in unfair dismissal claims, in discrimination cases and, as well, in connection with requests for re-instatement and wage-and-hour cases.
Hans supports his clients with in-house training in the form of in-house seminars and workshops on all labour law topics, from equal treatment issues, to dealing with the works council for managers, to (better) termination management.
A graduate of the University of Vienna (Mag.iur. 2000; Dr.iur. 2002) and the London School of Economics (LL.M. Labour Law, 2003), Hans is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on labour and employment law. Additionally, he is a lecturer on HR issues at the University of Applied Science BFI Vienna, and author of numerous publications in the field.
Prior to co-founding zeiler.partners in 2014, Hans acted as the employment partner for a major international Vienna-based law firm.
Hans works in English (fluent) and German (native).
Highlights of Hans’ work include the following:
Interested in specific aspects of Hans’ recent work? Contact vienna@zeilerfloydzad.com for further reference cases.
Professional Experience
Education
Laimer & Wieser (speakers), “Intensivtagung Fehl- und Abwesenheitszeiten“, MANZ Rechtsakademie, 24.05.2022.
Laimer and Wieser (lecturers), “Labour Law and Social Protection” course at BFI Vienna’s Bachelor Program “European Economy and Business Management”, May 2022.
Laimer & Wieser (authors), “Proportionality of Penalties for EU Posting of Workers—Direct Effect of Art 20 Directive 2014/67/EU (Re Bezirkshauptmannschaft Hartberg-Fürstenfeld)“, Case Analysis for LexisNexis, 20.04.2022.
Laimer (speaker), “KI als Entscheidungshilfe im Bewerbungsprozess und HR-Management“, JUVE Signale 2022 Conference, Köln/Germany, 17.03.2022.
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„Urlaub und weitere Abwesenheitszeiten“
With Hans Georg Laimer, Andreas Tinhofer and Lukas Wieser.
Thursday, 2 June 2022
09:00 Central European Time
Hybrid | at our offices at Zedlitzgasse 7, 3. Stock, 1010 Wien or Online
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With Hans Georg Laimer, Andreas Tinhofer and Lukas Wieser.
Thursday, 5 May 2022
09:00 Central European Time
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„Mobbing, (sexuelle) Diskriminierung und COVID-19 Maßnahmen am Arbeitsplatz”
With Hans Georg Laimer, Andreas Tinhofer and Lukas Wieser.
Thursday, 27 January 2022
09:00 Central European Time
The Austrian Supreme Court ruled in a landmark decision, published yesterday, that the Austrian statutory Kurzarbeit (short work) provisions do not provide companies’ individual employees with protection against termination of their employment.
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With Hans Georg Laimer, Andreas Tinhofer and Lukas Wieser.
Thursday, 7 October 2021
09:00 Central European Time
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Thursday, 24 June 2021
09:00 Central European Time
Congratulations to our Hans Georg Laimer for being selected as one of Who’s Who Legal’s Thought Leaders in Labour & Employment for 2021!
Congratulations to our Gerold Zeiler for being ranked #1 arbitration lawyer in Austria, and to our Hans Georg Laimer for being ranked a leading employment lawyer by trend magazine!
We are proud to be ranked by the Legal 500 once again for our work in Arbitration and in Employment!
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“Aktuelle Rechtsprechung und gesetzliche Neuerungen“
With Hans Georg Laimer, Andreas Tinhofer and Lukas Wieser.
Thursday, 15 April 2021
09:00 Central European Time
