If you're planning any holidays, it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with the labour laws when it comes to paid vacation days as an employee in Germany.
There are quite a few new laws coming into force at the start of next year, and many of them promise savings for the average household. We look at the key changes you should know about.
When you’re buying morning rolls, bratwurst or ice-cream it’s unusual to be offered a receipt. But under a new law, retailers in Germany have to do this. There's been a mixed reaction so far.
It doesn’t matter if it’s a music subscription, mobile phone contract or electricity provider: quitting a service is often much harder than buying something on the internet. Here's how that could change in 2020.
A new law comes into force on January 1st that means bakeries, hairdressers, restaurants and other retailers in Germany will have to issue receipts to customers. Here's why and what people think about it.
The Higher Regional Court (OLG) in Frankfurt am Main said in a ruling published Monday that hangovers are an "illness", in a timely judgement days after the annual Oktoberfest beer festival began in Munich.
From new laws aimed at better protection from violence for women to an improvement in the monitoring of drinking water, the turn of the new month brings with it quite a few changes.
It’s the start of a new month and you know what that means: several laws and regulations that change which might just affect you in some way or another.
A good 40 percent of refugees win court cases they filed in response to the decision made on their asylum status in Germany. For those coming from Syria and Afghanistan, the figure stands at 60 percent.
As ever the start of every new month brings with it some small but significant changes to life in Germany. Here's a look at what changes in December 2017.
Germany has made great efforts to purge legal system of remnants of Adolf Hitler's regime, but some laws still bear traces of the Nazi past. The Justice Minister wants to change this.
The German Children Protection Society (DKSB) has condemned remarks by Pope Francis after the Catholic leader said it was okay to hit children as long as their dignity remained intact.
The Federal Administrative Court on Wednesday has ruled that the state of Hesse overstepped its bounds when legislating more allowances for firms to operate, and thus force employees to work, on Sundays and bank holidays.
Germany made it harder Friday for people from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Serbia to apply for asylum after lawmakers classified the three Balkan countries as safe, with respect for basic rights.
As Uber and its chauffeur app continue to operate in Germany despite a national ban, one faithful user tells The Local why he became a fan of the company and the app from day one.
Police officers from both countries will in the future mount joint patrols in frontier areas, both in uniform and in plain clothes, it was agreed on Tuesday.
An odd rule giving Germans on social welfare support caught having disruptive sex outdoors a lower fine than those with jobs is dividing society and needs to change, says the federal employment office (BA).
Germany could in the future have a country-wide “tolerable limit” for cannabis possession, it was reported on Friday. Currently, this amount differs between states.
