Attorney at law and specialist lawyer for labor law
Education
- Studied law at the Universities of Bielefeld and Konstanz
- First state law examination in 1994 in Konstanz
- Second state law examination in 1996 in Stuttgart
- Master of Advanced European Studies (M.A.E.S.) at the European Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland, specialising in European labour law in 1998
Career milestones
- Since 1996, practising as a solicitor in Switzerland, among other places
- 1999 to 2003 Managing Director of Kolping Bildungszentrum Konstanz
- 1999 Founded the Wirlitsch law firm in Konstanz, Germany
- Since 2008 Specialist lawyer for labour law
Teaching
- Since 1996 Lecturer in labour and commercial law at further education institutions and universities, including HTWG Konstanz
- 1999 Associate Professor of International Law, Concordia International University of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
- Speaker at labour law training courses for works councils and staff councils
- Since winter semester 2017/18 Lecturer at the University of Konstanz ‘Labour law for humanities scholars’
Right of termination
- Individual labour law
- Employment contract law
- Right of termination
- Right to a reference
- Works constitution law
- Collective labour law
- Establishment and implementation of conciliation committees
- Works and service agreements
- Reconciliation of interests and social plans
- Working time law, operational working time arrangements, duty rosters and shift schedules
- Occupational health and safety
- Data protection law
- Public sector and church labour law
- Collective bargaining law
- Service contract law
- Advice for managing directors and board members
- Liability law for managing directors, board members and supervisory board members
- International commercial law
- Deployment of workers abroad
- Establishment of limited liability companies
- Establishment of supervisory boards in accordance with the One-Third Participation Act
- Reorganisation/restructuring
Publications (selection)
- Book: ‘Working Hours in Questions and Answers,’ 1st edition 2023
- Baden-Württemberg State Personnel Representation Act, Basic Commentary – Bund-Verlag, 3rd edition 2016, 4th edition 2019, 5th edition 2023
- NZA 2022, 1317 ff. Michael D. Wirlitsch et al., New jurisdiction of labour courts in staff representation law
- NVwZ 2022, III. NVwZ editorial, Michael D. Wirlitsch et al., Amendment of the Federal Staff Representation Act: Opportunity for state legislators
- Can working on Sundays be a sin? – Labour law in the workplace 2013, issue 1, p. 63
- The Staff Council Issue 2012/10–Bund-Verlag, 2012
- Legal consequences of subsequent notification in the event of a transfer of business–ArbRAktuell 2011, 450
- Works council under time pressure–Labour Law in the Workplace 2010, Issue 10, p. 618
- When must the works council remain silent? – ArbRAktuell 2010, 415
- The works council’s right to injunctive relief – ArbRAktuell 2010, 521
- Works council’s rights to information not regulated by the BetrVG – ArbRAktuell 2009, 228
- What is Europe? Or Swiss ‘Master of Advanced European Studies’ as an opportunity for Swiss lawyers in Europe, Michael D. Wirlitsch, article in the legal journal L’avocat, Switzerland, September 2000
- Towards European labour and social law? – European Institute Basel, 1998
