The Individual Legal Bases

An (1) ………………… agreement between employer and employee may be a legal basis of the (2) …………. to the pension. The agreement must be in writing to be recognized by the (3) ……….. authorities.

The employer is also legally (4) ………. if he unilaterally establishes special guidelines for (5) ………. - pension benefits in his company (so-called pension regulation) in the form of a collective (6) ………. These guidelines (7) …………. become part of the individual employment (8) ……….. If the employer first (9) …………- only in general that he will (10) ………… pension (11) …………… he is allowed later (12) ………….. the details of the pension regulation; this, however, must then be in line with equitable discretion, i.e. take the employees’ interests adequately into account.

In practice, collectively (13) …………… collective agreements are important in particular in the public (14) ………….. and in the building industry. (15) ………….. agreements between employer and works council as a basis for pensions, however, are even more frequent than collective agreements.

Ex. 9. Read the following text. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words from the box.

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Formal Requirements

Basically the contract of employment doesn’t require a written or any other form, i.e. it may (1) ……… be concluded orally. Exceptions apply to so-called staff regulation officers of the (2) …………health insurance funds and of the industrial accident (3) ………. institution. However, the written form is recommended in order to avoid the burden of (4) ……….. in case of differences of opinion later on.

Vocational (5) …………. contracts needn’t be written in order to be legally (6) ………... However, immediately upon conclusion of the contracts the (7) …………… providing training has to lay down the basic contents in (8) ………...

In case an (9) ……….. on the prohibition of competition is made for the time after (10) ………… of employment, the written form must be kept. This doesn’t necessarily apply to the remaining points of the employment (11) ………...

A collective agreement, works agreement or a contract between employer and employee may (12) …………. for written form for the whole contract of (13) ………… or for individual (14) ………… of the contract. An individual agreement may be altered without formality at any time, if both the employee and the employer agree that the new oral agreement is to be (15) ………...

Ex. 10. Read the following text. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words from the box.

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