The standard for establishing an unforeseeable emergency under Section 409A is high, but the conditions created by COVID-19 may result in certain employees having situations that meet this threshold.

The take-away for employers would be that the “relatively urgent” need for surgery would meet the standard for “unforeseeable” and therefore the employee would not be required to give 30 ...

The public prosecutor's office in Koblenz has closed the investigation into the deadly flood disaster in the Ahr valley that occurred in the summer of 2021. A sufficient suspicion against the ...