Areas of focus

• works constitution law
• works councils
• general works councils
• group works councils
• other employees` interest groups
• labor law

 

Foreign languages

• English

 

Publications

• "111 questions about data protection when working from home", CuA 03/2024, together with Elion Ziannis
• "10 tips for regulating mobile work", CuA 03/2023"
• Basics for works council work", AiB 01/2023, together with Stefanie Kirschner
• "Artificial intelligence and virtual meetings", AiB extra August 2022, together with Stefanie Kirschner
• "Resilience training are necessary", AiB 02/2022, together with Antje Pape
• "Virtual works meeting - pros and cons", AiB 11/2021, together with René Kluge

Expert activity

• Sirkka Schrader was heard as an expert in the Committee for Labor and Social Affairs of the German Bundestag. The hearing took place, among other things, on the Works Council Modernization Act. Further information and the video of the hearing can be found here.

Lectures

• "Arbeitszeit: Ein wichtiges Gestaltungsfeld für Betriebs- und Personalräte", dtb-Fachtagung "Digitalisierung, Beschäftigtendatenschutz und europäisch-nationale Rechtsprechung zum Datenschutzrecht (DSGVO/BDSG)" im November 2023
• "Neue Arbeitsteilung zwischen betrieblichen Datenschutzbeauftragten (bDSB) und Betriebsrat", dtb-Fachtagung "Die Würde des Menschen und die Grundrechte im Arbeitsleben" im November 2022
  
  

Memberships

• Republican Lawyers' Association (RAV)*
• Vereinigung Demokratischer Juristinne und Juristen e.V. (VDJ)
• United Services Union (ver.di)

 

* Since its founding in 1979, the RAV has advocated the goal of defending civil and human rights against state, economic or social claims to power and working towards the progressive development of the law.