Languages

German, English, French, Swedish

Marie-Louise Ballázs, a Certified Specialist for Employment Law, has many years of experience in providing advice on employment law, both as a lawyer and in corporate practice. This unique dual perspective enables her to provide clients with comprehensive and practical advice. With her in-depth knowledge, she offers strategic solutions in all areas of individual and collective employment law. Her consulting approach is characterized by a combination of legal excellence and economic understanding.

Her main areas of expertise include:

• Legal support for operational changes, including the negotiation and implementation of reconciliation of interests and social plans
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating works agreements, as well as providing support in conciliation proceedings
• Strategic employment law advice to HR and company management, particularly in transformation processes
• Judicial and extrajudicial representation in individual and collective employment law disputes
• Advice on termination of employment, remuneration issues, vacation law issues, warnings, transfer/management rights, and reference matters

Before joining our firm, Marie-Louise Ballázs worked for several years as an attorney in a boutique law firm specializing in employment law. She handled both individual and collective employment law cases, often in the context of large companies. She then moved into corporate practice and worked as an in-house lawyer in the field of labor relations. Her responsibilities included the design and implementation of complex co-determination and restructuring projects as well as providing employment law advice to group management. Thanks to her wide-ranging experience, Marie-Louise Ballázs assesses employment law issues from different perspectives in a holistic, solution-oriented, and practical manner.

In addition to her legal training in Germany, Marie-Louise Ballázs studied abroad in France, where she obtained a Licence de droit (Lic.Droit). She also holds both German and Swedish citizenship and maintains her Scandinavian roots with regular visits to Sweden.