Since the beginning of 2025, numerous changes to the law have provided more opportunities to implement HR processes more efficiently, cost-effectively and in compliance with the law: For example, employee leasing agreements and proof of essential working conditions can now be handled in text form in most cases.
Habib Bejaoui and Jörg Lenz explain why leading employment lawyers repeatedly point out that although email, SMS or WhatsApp fulfill the text form for these and other processes, their probative value may be insufficient in the event of a dispute and that more probative procedures should be used.
In addition, the speakers will discuss the numerous exceptions: you will learn for which transactions the electronic form with qualified electronic signature (QES) is still required and for which transactions only the paper form (signature with ink) is permitted for the time being. Last but not least, they will take a look at which laws the new federal government needs to work on to reduce the remaining bureaucratic hurdles.