Labor Law

Labor law for IT companies and digital business models

From entry to exit – legally secure, entrepreneurial, and personal.

Labor law shapes daily interactions between employers and employees. It determines planning security, corporate culture, and economic success. In every company, digitalization in particular creates legal challenges. Remote work, data protection, IT compliance, confidentiality, non-compete clauses, and the protection of know-how must be properly regulated under labor law.

ATB.LAW advises and represents employers, managing directors, and executives in all areas of individual and collective labor law. We assist with the drafting and review of employment contracts, in day-to-day labor law operations, during restructuring measures, transfers of undertakings, and termination processes, as well as in labor law disputes before courts and authorities.

Our advisory services combine employment law expertise with a special understanding of IT law, digitalization, data protection, compliance, and corporate decision-making processes. As a result, we develop solutions that are both legally sound and economically viable. We focus on proactive structuring instead of costly disputes and represent you decisively when conflict is unavoidable. Personal, solution-oriented, and with the entrepreneurial perspective that demanding employment law mandates require.

Our Focus areas

Employment contracts, IT labor law and contract drafting

ATB.LAW drafts, reviews, and negotiates employment contracts, service agreements, freelance contracts, independent contractor agreements, and special arrangements for executives. A particular focus is placed on labor law solutions for IT companies, technology-oriented businesses, and digital business models.

We design legally compliant regulations for home office, remote work, Bring Your Own Device, confidentiality, non-compete clauses, bonus models, employee participation, business trips, and company cars. This reduces employment law risks and creates clear foundations for collaboration.

Termination of employment relationships, restructurings, and transfers of businesses

ATB.LAW assists companies with terminations, dismissals, mutual agreements, and severance agreements. We support sensitive separation processes, workforce reductions, social plans, and compliance with the early warning system under the AMFG.

We develop employment law implementation strategies for restructurings, transfers of undertakings under the Austrian Employment Law Amendment Act (AVRAG), and M&A transactions. The goal is a legally secure, economically sensible, and organizationally viable solution.

Employment law litigation and representation in court

ATB.LAW represents companies, managing directors, executive board members, and senior executives in employment law disputes before labor and social courts. This includes dismissal challenges, wrongful termination challenges, wage and salary disputes, discrimination proceedings, bullying proceedings, and labor law arbitration proceedings.

We also represent companies in disputes regarding trade secrets, non-compete clauses, confidentiality obligations, and employee poaching. Our litigation practice is strategic, solution-oriented, and focused on the company's economic objective.

Collective labor law, works constitution, and employee data protection

ATB.LAW advises companies on collective labor law issues, works council agreements, negotiations with works councils, works council elections, and collective bargaining matters. Works council agreements concerning working hours, remuneration, IT use, employee monitoring, and the deployment of digital systems are of particular importance.

Thanks to ATB.LAW's special expertise in IT law, we also advise employers at the intersection of labor law, data protection, digitization, and compliance. These include employee data protection, electronic personnel files, AI in the employment relationship, recruiting tools, performance management, BYOD, home office, internal IT guidelines, and the AI Act in the HR context.

Compliance, whistleblower protection, equal treatment and training

ATB.LAW assists companies with employment law compliance, internal reporting channels under the Whistleblower Protection Act, internal investigations, pay transparency, and equal treatment. We also advise on administrative proceedings and administrative penal proceedings under employment-related supplementary laws.

In addition, ATB.LAW offers practical in-house training sessions and workshops for HR managers, executives, and works councils. The training covers typical everyday employment law topics as well as current developments in case law, legislation, data protection, compliance, and digitization.