Affiliations
Vice-Chair of Cross-Border HR (XBHR); Vice-Chair of the Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee of the International Bar Association; Co-Chair of the International Subcommittee of the ERR Committee, American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section; Member of the American Employment Law Council, the German-American Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the international association of labor and employment lawyers \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"Worklaw Network\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"; Member of the advisory board at Cranfield University, UK, for the MBA program in International Human Resources Management |
Experience
Gerlind Wisskirchen is a partner and specialist lawyer in employment and labor law. The Labor and Employment Law Team has been ranked by JUVE in the first tier for years. The team’s strength lies in its in-depth understanding of the economic environment in which clients operate. She and her team strive to forge workable business solutions to real-world problems. Gerlind advises German and foreign multinational companies on all areas of individual and collective employment law, in particular, on the issues of restructuring and reorganization, outsourcing, collective bargaining (e.g. the introduction of ERA) and works council aspects, privatizations, transactions and personnel adjustment measures. She frequently acts as a consultant to the management of a company in order to structure business plans and strategies from an HR/employment perspective.
In a global arena where national jurisdictions play a lesser role, she has particular expertise in cross-border aspects and heads corresponding European projects such as cross-border transfers of business and outsourcing and off-shoring, issues of compliance, cross-border audits and investigations with regard to compliance issues, matrix structures of multinational companies, European works councils, the implementation of codes of conduct and whistle-blowing systems, the assignment/relocation of employees, data privacy issues and holistic production systems (Toyota business system, Lean, Kaizen etc.). She developed the \\\\\\\"EU Labor & Employment Law Navigator\\\\\\\" – a comparative analysis of labor law systems in Europe.
Gerlind regularly gives talks and holds seminars both for employment and HR specialists and at national and International conferences, such as the International Bar Association, the American Bar Association and the American Employment Law Council. She is a lecturer at the leading European business school, Cranfield University, UK, for its MBA program in International Human Resources Management. She has published numerous articles in German and English.
Gerlind studied law at the University of Bonn, the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and Georgetown University, USA. PhD in 1993 on \\\\\\\"Indirect Discrimination in Employment (Disparate Impact Cases): USA – Europe\\\\\\\". Worked for two U.S. law firms (1991-1992, 1995) and for the international department of the Federal Ministry of Finance (1995-1998). Joined the law firm in 1998 to strengthen the international section of the labor and employment law team.
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