Portrait

Amelie Bernardi has been a lawyer since 1996 and a specialist lawyer for Labor Law since 2002. She represents companies, managing directors, boards, and specialist and executive staff in all matters related to labor law or service contracts and associated disputes.

Amelie Bernardi has extensive experience in individual labor law (e.g., terminations, termination agreements, drafting employment contracts and target agreements, use of external personnel, and data protection issues) as well as in collective labor law (advice or representation in connection with negotiations and disputes between employers and works or staff councils, collective bargaining law, etc.). In addition, she supports during corporate restructurings and reorganization processes.

In this regard, Amelie Bernardi advises not only on legal frameworks and strategic planning but also takes on the labor court representation of her clients. In complex negotiations and contentious disputes, she is available to her clients as a competent contact person and actively supports negotiations with her many years of extensive experience.

In addition to her legal practice, Amelie Bernardi regularly holds lectures and seminars (e.g., FOM – University of Oekonomie & Management non-profit GmbH, IHK Frankfurt, Hera Training GmbH of the Hessian Bar Association, Association of German Labor Lawyers e.V., in-house seminars for large and medium-sized companies in individual and collective labor law). Furthermore, she is a (co-)author and editor of several specialist books on labor law, including topics such as Works Constitution Law, use of external personnel, sample annual discussions, and target agreements. She regularly publishes articles on labor law.

Vita

Since 2023
Lawyer at NOTOS Rechtsanwälte

2018-2022
Bub Memminger & Partner

1999-2018
Lawyer at FPS Rechtsanwälte, a large independent law firm, Frankfurt am Main

Since 2017
Lecturer in the specialist lawyer training for labor law.

Since 1999
Lecturer at FOM – University of Oekonomie & Management non-profit GmbH, among others, for labor law, contract law, and negotiation techniques, at IHK Frankfurt, Forum-Verlag, Hera Training GmbH of the Hessian Bar Association, Association of German Labor Lawyers e.V.
She regularly holds in-house seminars for large and medium-sized companies in individual and collective labor law.

Since 1997
(Co-)author and editor of several labor law specialist books, including topics such as Works Constitution Law, use of external personnel, sample annual discussions, and target agreements, regular publication of labor law articles.

1996-1998
Law Firm Bauhuis Walldorf

Education

Legal clerkship at the District Court of Heidelberg
Study of law at Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg

Training Institutions

Hera Training GmbH of the Hessian Bar Association GmbH (affiliated with the Frankfurt Bar Association), there seminars for further training of specialist lawyers for labor law within the framework of mandatory training on the topics:

• Designing employment contracts securely and advantageously

• Minimum Wage Act and ancillary laws such as the Posted Workers Act, the Act on Combating Illegal Employment

• Target agreements, target specifications, and special payments

• Reimbursement of training and further education costs by employers to attract and retain employees

IHK Frankfurt, regularly various seminars and courses in labor law, e.g.:

• Labor law compact I

• Labor law compact II

• Employment references

• HR specialists, there Works Constitution and Collective Bargaining Law

Association of German Labor Lawyers e.V. (there further training for specialist lawyers for labor law):

• Target agreements, target specifications, and special payments

Forum-Verlag:

• Designing employment contracts securely and advantageously

Specialist Books

• (Co-)editor and (co-)author: The new Works Constitution Law

• (Co-)author: Successful Candidate Selection

• (Co-)author: Employment of External Personnel and False Self-Employment

• (Co-)author: Templates for Annual Discussions and Target Agreements

• (Co-)author: Handbook for Building Cleaning, covering individual labor law, Works Constitution Law, and Collective Bargaining Law

Articles

• Labor Law and Corona, Tips for Home Office, Short-Time Work during Corona Times, Manager Magazine, 03.04.2020 *

• Employee Data Protection: Exclusion of Evidence when using a Keylogger in Employment Relationships, IT Legal Advisor 2017, Issue 12, p. 275 **

• Boss can prohibit employees from wearing beards, Die Welt, 10.07.2014

• Demand for collective agreement unity, dpa report and further dissemination, among others Die Welt, 31.08.2012.

• Lufthansa: The Pilot Strike and its Consequences, FAZ 19.02.2010

• Opinions expressed online can cost jobs, Wirtschaftswoche, 9.9.2016

• Maximum extension? Termination periods in employment relationships, Arbeit und Arbeitsrecht (AuA) Issue 02/2018, p. 84 ff.

• Much ado about nothing? Twelve days of work in a row are lawful according to the EU Court ruling (Review of the EU Court ruling of 09.11.2017, C 306/16), Handelsblatt Legal Board 13.11.2017

* With Lawyer Dr. Yvonne Conzelmann
** With Lawyer, Specialist Lawyer in IT Law Dr. Hauke Hansen