New judgment: employers must be considerate of pets

Dogs need a lot of attention and exercise.

Employers must also take into account the needs of their four-legged friends, as a court has now decided.

Working people often have a hard time getting a job and a pet under one roof.

Dog owners in particular (by the way, these are the best dog breeds for working people) have to spend a lot of time with their four-legged friends because they need a lot of exercise and attention.

A new ruling now takes this into account.

When changing working hours, consideration must be given to dogs, cats and the like

Labor law provides for the following: If an employer changes the working hours of his or her employee, he must also take the interests of his employees into account.

If there are

good reasons

against it, employees do not have to accept the change.

This also includes pets

, as the Hagen Labor Court has now decided in one case.

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In this case, costs for dog sitters are unreasonable

The labor court in Hagen approved of a part-time employee whose working hours were to be extended from five hours to seven hours on Fridays and shortened on the other working days (AZ: 4 Ca 1688/20).

Among other things, he did not want to accept the change because of his dog, which he would then no longer have been able to take care of appropriately.

In this case the plaintiff animal welfare benefited: According to the court

a dog can not be expected

,

to remain seven hours plus travel times alone

.

Many new dog owners also face this problem when they have to go back to the office from home.

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It would have been possible to give the dog to a sitter.

However, the costs for the dog sitter could only have been imposed on the plaintiff if there were “serious operational reasons” for extending the working hours on that day.

However, according to the court, this was not the case.

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