Corona Task Force

(Last update: 14 April 2021)

The Corona crisis raises numerous legal questions. Our experts can answer them - and everyone is available to you. Below you will find important information, dates and consulting topics.

Support/Liquidity

• Lump-sum reduction of prepayments for 2019 (Last update: 19 May 2020)
• Employee participation - financing options for companies in crisis (Last update: 29 April 2020)
• Simplification rules fpr tax-privileged corporations (Last update: 14 April 2020)
• Securing liquidity through tax deferrals and an adjustment of advance tax payments (Last update: 6 April 2020) 

Human Resources

• Supply bottlenecks: rights and claims of retailers and online traders (Last update: 16.11.2021)
• “Mini-jobbers”: corona landmark decision of the BAG? (Last update: 14.10.2021)
• Update: Corona Occupational Health and Safety and how to handle the home office (Last update: 01.07.2021)
• Focus on Labor Law - 2nd quarter 2021 (Last update: 29 June 2021)
• Short-time work benefit and bridging aid extended until the end of September (Last update: 11 June 2021)
• Dealing with vaccinated and non-vaccinated employees at the workplace - Is the employer allowed to ask about vaccination status and deploy its employees differ-ently depending on the answer?
• Update FAQ: Employee testing and occupational corona vaccination (Last Update: 29 April 2021)
• Corona – update on employee testing (Last update: 14 April 2021)
• (Mandatory) use of rapid antigen tests in companies (Last update: 30 March 2021)
• Update: FAQs on Short-Time Work (Last update: 15 March 2021)
• First short-time work, now fear of it being checked? (Last update: 19 February 2021)
• Update: Childcare regulations relevant to remuneration (Last update: 8 January 2021)
• FAQ: Labour law aspects in connection with corona vaccinations (Last update: 7 January 2021)
• Corona - new remuneration-relevant regulations in autumn (Last update: 25 November 2020)
• "Corona special payments" to employees (Last update: 19 November 2020)
• Corona vaccinations - can employers enforce compulsory vaccination? (Last update: 18 November 2020)
• Continued payment of wage and the remuneration risk in times of corona (Last update: 26 October 2020)
• How employers should deal with employees returning from vacation (Last update: 28 August 2020)
• Home office - Current focuses (Last update: 25 August 2020)
• Occupational health and safety - SARS-CoV2 Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (Last update: 12 August 2020)
• Need for action regarding short-time work compensation - possibility until 31 July 2020 of having the short-time work notification reinterpreted to apply to individual business departments(Last update: 27 July 2020)
• Temporary changes in working-time regulations for certain work activities (Last update: 24 April 2020)
• Short-time work- News from the legislator (Last update: 8 May 2020)
• Corona Crisis - Virtual Shop Constitution (Last update: 1 June 2020)
• Occupational safety - "SARS-Cov2 Occupational Safety Standard" (Last update: 16 April 2020)
• Tax exempt for “Corona bonus payments” (Last update: 9 April 2020)
• Labour Law FAQs to COVID-19 (Last update: 3 April 2020)
• FAQs on Short-Time Work (Last update: 29 May 2020)
• Handling employee data during the corona crisis(Last update: 26 March 2020)
• German Act on the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases (Last update: 25 March)
• Effects of the coronavirus - labor law update (Last update: 24 March)

Home Office

• Home office - Current focuses (Last update: 25 August 2020)
• Tax aspects of "remote working" / home office (Last update: 18 May 2020)

Investments

• Reform of the German Foreign Trade and Payments Act (Last update: 9 April 2020)
• Investment checks in times of the corona crisis (Last update: 27 March 2020)

Companies and Institutions

• Restructuring / Reorganization: Oppenhoff - your partner in the corona crisis (Last update: 20 October 2020)
• Protective Shield Proceedings (Schutzschirmverfahren) (Last update: 9 April 2020)
• Changes in German corporate law due to COVID-19 (Last update: 27 March 2020)
• Law suspending the obligation to file for insolvency (Last update: 26 March 2020)
• Coronavirus and the risk of insolvency: What I (now) need to know as managing director (Last update: 18 March 2020)

Antitrust Law

• German parliament decides on temporary extension of deadlines for German merger control and interest-free deferral of cartel fines (Last update: 15 April 2020)
• What corona rules apply to the retail trade? (Last update: 20 April 2020)
• Joint statement by the European Competition Network (ECN) on application of competition law during the Corona crisis (Last update: 24 March 2020)

Real Estate

• Lease payments during the COVID 19 pandemic - the legal attempt at a solution (Last update: 18 December 2020)
• Changes in tenancy and consumer loan law due to the corona crisis (Last update: 25 March 2020)
• Waiver of the rent payment obligation during the corona crisis? (Last update: 24 March 2020)

Court Cases

• Trade fairs, congresses and professional events - what do organizers need to be aware of? (Last update: 16 April 2020)
• FAQs on court proceedings in times of the corona crisis (Last update: 3 April 2020)

General

• Possible vaccination obligation in Germany? (Last update: 22 January 2021)
• Use of the Corona-Warn-App in companies (Last update: 14 August 2020)
• Remote acceptance: commissioning machines despite corona (Last update: 8 May 2020)
• Corona Virus Quick Check: Important information on employers' rights and obligations, effects in the supply chain as well as company acquisitions and restructuring (Last update: 18 March 2020)

Dates

• Here you will find upcoming Online-Seminar dates. All events are held in German.
• 2 April 2020: Online-Seminar "Precautionary power of attorney for health care also an absolute must without coronavirus" - presentation slides
• 1 April 2020: Online-Seminar Conference Call "Has your tenant stopped payment as well?"- together with JLL - EXPIRED
• 31 March 2020: Online-Seminar "Latin America special: effects of coronavirus on contractual relationships" - presentation slides
• 30 March 2020 (rescheduled date): Online-Seminar "Force majeure - Must contracts be fulfilled despite the spread of the corona virus?"- presentation slides
• 19 March 2020: Online-Seminar Conference Call: "Shops closed and now? - We have answers for you" - together with JLL - EXPIRED
• 18 March 2020: Online-Seminar "Force majeure - Must contracts be fulfilled despite the spread of the corona virus? - presentation slides
• 17 March 2020: Online-Seminar "Corona virus - regulations on short-time working" - Please find here the presentation slides as well as an application procdure schedule
• 12 March 2020: Online-Seminar "Corona Virus - Labour Law Issue" - Please find here the presentation slides

We also advise on the following topics:

• Annual General Meetings
• Claims
• Data protection in the crisis
• Distressed M&A
• Force majeure
• Lease obligations
• Loans and subsidies
• Managing director duties in the crisis
• M&A contracts (MAC clauses)
• Private prevention
• Restructuring
• Short-time work
• Supply contract obligations
• State Liability/Infection Protection Act
• Tax aspects of home office etc.
• Tax deferrals, adjustment of tax prepayments
• Work performance and remuneration

Your contact

Jörn Kuhn (Employment Law), Dr. Vanessa Pickenpack (Contract Law), Dr. Peter Etzbach (Corporate/M&A), Dr. Marc Hilber (Contract Law), Dr. Nefail Berjasevic (Insolvency/Restructuring)

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