Mag. Dominik Stella, attorney at law in Vienna
Austrian employment law, explained for headquarters.
A sparring partner for international companies, investors and executives: on M&A transactions, restructurings, employee data protection and the questions today's workplace raises in Austria.
About Dominik Stella
Dominik Stella is an attorney at law in Vienna and partner at Schindler Attorneys, where he heads the employment practice.
He advises on individual and collective employment law and employee data protection, with a focus on the employment aspects of M&A transactions and restructurings, and represents clients in court and in collective bargaining. In 2021 he moved to Burgstaller & Preyer. He speaks regularly at conferences such as Festo's safety.tech and gives in-house seminars on employment law and data protection. He studied law in Vienna and Oslo, was a research assistant at the Institute of Labour and Social Law at the University of Vienna, now teaches employment law in the university's LL.M. programme in Tourism and Law, and passed the bar exam with distinction in 2019. Recognised in Best Lawyers in Austria for Labor and Employment Law since 2024. Member of the Vienna Bar and the IBA.
Practice areas
M&A and transactions
Employment due diligence, warranties and indemnities in the purchase agreement, share and asset deals, transfers of undertakings, key-employee retention and post-closing integration.
Restructuring and transformation
Carve-outs and transfers of undertakings, workforce reductions including the AMS early-warning procedure, site closures and social plans.
Terminations
Notice, summary dismissal and mutual termination, works council consultation, defence against unfair dismissal claims and special protection.
Executives and board members
Managing director and board service agreements, removal and exit, non-compete clauses. For companies and for executives themselves.
Compensation, bonus and pensions
Rolling out international bonus and LTI plans in Austria, all-in contracts, occupational pensions and the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
Works councils and collective bargaining
Works agreements, co-determination rights, negotiations with works councils and unions, arbitration board proceedings.
Employee data protection and compliance
GDPR in the employment relationship, monitoring systems, AI tools and the AI Act, whistleblowing systems and internal investigations.
Contingent workforce
Temporary agency work, service contracts versus labour leasing, freelancers and bogus self-employment, postings and the LSD-BG.
Employment litigation
Representation before the Labour and Social Courts at all levels and in administrative penalty proceedings.
Tell me about your matter.
A few key facts and the name of the other party are enough for a first enquiry, so that conflicts of interest can be ruled out.
- Phone
- +43 1 512 26 13-400
- Mobile
- +43 676 840 080 400
- Office
- Schindler Attorneys, Kohlmarkt 8-10, 1010 Vienna, Austria