Merle Kulbach, LL.M.

Studied law in Hamburg with an elective focus on social law with references to labor law. Subsequently LL.M. studies at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Legal clerkship at the Schleswig-Holstein Higher Regional Court in the district of Itzehoe with stations in an internationally oriented medium-sized law firm and the Techniker Krankenkasse. Since 2022 attorney at law at SCHOMERUS.

Ms. Kulbach's practice focuses on social and labor law.

• Social security law, assessment of insurance status under social security law

• Examination of the results of a company audit by the German Pension Insurance Fund

• Bogus self-employment

• secondment and activities abroad

• individual and collective labor law

• drafting and review of employment and service contracts

• strategic and tactical labor law advice to companies and executives

• industrial constitution law

• Dismissal protection proceedings and out-of-court termination of employment and service contracts

• Hanseatic Bar Association Hamburg

• Comment on LAG Köln: GbR is a controlling company in a group only if the shareholders pursue a common purpose, together with Prof. Dr. Michael Fuhlrott in GWR 2021, 55

• Comment on ArbG Berlin: Exemption from mandatory mouth-nose-covering only with detailed proof of unreasonableness, together with Prof. Dr. Michael Fuhlrott in GWR 2021, 131

• Comment on ArbG Siegburg: Mask obligation for city hall employees, together with Prof. Dr. Michael Fuhlrott in NZA-RR 2021, 129