The Supreme Court recently ruled that a retirement policy which makes redundant all employees who are entitled to early retirement is discriminatory and, as a direct form of age discrimination,…

Ferdinand Graf, Andreas Edlinger & Marija Krizanac - Law and Practice Austria

The practical manual on insolvency proceedings has just been published by Linde Verlag

The size characteristics of § 221 Commercial Code (UGB) influence the scope of financial statements and their publication and audit requirement.

In case of a lessee´s insolvency, a lessor´s lien right is an excellent opportunity to secure and recover at least a portion of outstanding rental payments. However, lessors must act…

Imagine that a foreign entity employing Austrian staff in Austria asks its Austrian employees to sign a standard employment agreement template and then tries to terminate one of those employment…

Alexander Isola and David Seidl, our restructuring and insolvency experts, provided in the publication "Expedited Corporate Debt Restructuring in the EU" (published by the renowned Oxford University Press) a legal…

Country snapshot, Jakob Widner, October 2015

The Supreme Court recently ruled on whether and how an employer can request that employees submit to alcohol testing. The court qualified the employer´s unannounced breathalyser tests as a control…

In a recent case a high-profile trademark consisting of a famous family name was infringed through use in the course of trade by someone with the same family name. The…