Germany/ Constitutional court bans renewal of fixed term contracts “without reason”. The federal judges have overturned a previous decision from their colleagues at the Federal Court of Justice of Germany, which relaxed legislation on the issue, allowing companies to hand the same individual one such temporary contract, provided that three years elapse between the two contracts. Under German law, objective and material reasons are not required for the conclusion of a contract for a term not exceeding 2 years. However, renewals of these had been banned, to prevent companies from giving such contracts one after the other. The constitutional court made the decision to abolish this relaxing of legislation introduced by the Federal Court of Justice having been approached by an employee demanding that their employer give them an open-ended contract, rather than another temporary contract. The judges in Karlsruhe believe their colleagues had overstepped their mandate. They believe the fight against repeated renewals of temporary contracts, and the protection of open-ended contracts as a standard for employment relations, contributes to the State’s duty to protect disadvantaged workers and therefore the social state
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