Two recent amendments to the Labour Relations Act benefit the legal status of works councils and are geared towards increasing older employees´ job prospects.  Jakob Widner, ILO-Newsletter dd. April 26,…

Contradicting assessments of the issue of likelihood of confusion regarding the same trademarks by different panels of the same appellate court in parallel conducted opposition and infringement proceedings do generally…

In a novel decision the Supreme Court for the first time ruled on the thin line between the freedoms to provide services afforded under the fundamental treaties of the European…

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…