LAWYER PROFILE

Jens Winter

Europe 2026

CMS

Ranked in 1 practice area

Employment

Austria

14 years ranked

About

Provided by CMS

Europe

Practice Areas

Jens Winter specialises in Employment Law. He is a partner at CMS and advises national and international companies predominantly on issues of individual and collective labour law, Data Protection Law in the field of labour law and occupational pension law.

Winter has many years of experience in representing national and international clients in court and before the authorities. He also has extensive practical experience in the implementation and execution of corporate restructurings and the spin-off and integration of (parts of) businesses in the course of (international) business transfers. In addition, he has been involved in the examination and implementation of (cross-border) transactions on several occasions.

Publications

ASGG - Arbeits- und Sozialgerichtsgesetz. Hrsg. Köck/Sonntag

Ist-Lohnklauseln und Unterentlohnung (Actual salary clauses and unlawfully low pay, German publication), ecolex 2017, 280

Doppelt hält besser - Zweifache Mitwirkungsbefugnis des BR bei Änderungskündigung (Better safe than sorry – The works’ council has double rights of participation in notices of dismissal pending a change of contract, German publication), ecolex 2016, 994, Krömer/Winter

Schicksal einer Betriebspensionszusage bei Betriebs(teil)übergang (The fate of a works pension plan when ownership of a business is (partly) transferred, German publication), ZAS 2016/40, Stella/Winter

Übernahme der Konventionalstrafe nicht mehr wettbewerbswidrig? (Does accepting a fine for breaching contract no longer constitute a breach of non-competition clauses?, German publication) ecolex 2015, 55, Stella/Winter

Rechnungslegungspflicht von Pensionskassen (Duty for pension schemes to prepare financial statements, German publication), ecolex 2014, 258, Winter/Eberhartinger

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers European Guide

Employment - Austria

Band 2

Individual Editorial

Jens Winter regularly advises on all employment law issues, including the negotiation of works council agreements, employee and pension transfers connected to restructurings, as well as working time models. He also represents companies in employment disputes, such as those concerning company pensions and terminations.

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