Dr. Franziska Hügel-Spohnheimer

Competence

Dr. Franziska Hügel-Spohnheimer is a lawyer and partner at BDO Legal. She heads the Employment Law practice group.

The focus of her work is providing employment law advice the restructuring of companies and operational changes as well as employment law advice regarding transfers of undertakings. She also advises national and international companies on all questions of individual and collective employment law, employment contract law and related social security law issues. She also represents the interests of our clients before the labor courts in all instances.

Franziska Hügel-Spohnheimer studied law in Jena. She completed her doctorate in Jena on the subject of "Self-administration as a model for increasing the insolvency estate". 

Before joining BDO Legal, she worked for a major international law firm in Düsseldorf.

In her spare time, she enjoys city trips in Europe, art exhibitions and sports.
 

Industries

• Service providers
• Machinery and plant engineering
• Real estate and construction
• Chemical sector
• Automotive
• Production industry
• Retail and consumer goods
• Manufacturing industry

Focus

• Individual labor law
• Managing directors' and management board service relationships
• Collective labor law
• Operational changes and restructuring
• Headcount reduction and collective redundancies
• Outsourcing in labor law and transfer of operations
• Labor law disputes

Publications

• Schicksal von Vorstands- und Geschäftsführeranstellungsverträgen bei Fusionen öffentlich-rechtlicher Landesbanken, BB 2008, 2178 ff. (co-authored with Marc André Gimmy);
• Doppelt hält (nicht immer) besser – Anforderungen an Arbeitgeberkündigungen wegen privater Internetnutzung, Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel – print edition (2010), p. 110 ff. (co-authored with Marc André Gimmy)
• Regierungsentwurf zum Beschäftigtendatenschutz - Bundesregierung will Arbeitnehmer-Datenschutz stärken; Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, Issue 18/2010, p. 13 ff. (co-authored with Marc André Gimmy)
• BAG stärkt Tarifpluralität - Aktuelles Urteil zur tarifvertraglichen Öffnung für betriebliche Bündnisse für Arbeit, Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, Issue 22/2010, p. 12 f. (co-authored with Marc André Gimmy)
• Prozessrisiko des Arbeitgebers reduziert – BAG: Formelle Wirksamkeit einer Kündigung aufgrund Interessenausgleich nebst Namensliste; Deutscher AnwaltSpiegel, Issue 16/2011, p. 8 ff. (co-authored with Marc André Gimmy)
• Kündigungsschutz für „entgrenzte“ Arbeitnehmer?, NZA 2013, 764 ff. (co-authored with Marc André Gimmy)
• Commentary on § 32 Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) in "Systematischer Praxiskommentar Datenschutzrecht", Bundesanzeiger Verlag, (co-authored with Marc André Gimmy)