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Paula Wernecke

Rechtsanwältin | Chief Human Resources Officer

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Paula Wernecke

Rechtsanwältin | Chief Human Resources Officer

Contact
CMS Hasche Sigle
Lennéstraße 7
10785 Berlin
Germany
Languages German, English

Paula Wernecke is Chief Human Resources Officer at CMS Germany. Her responsibilities also include managing the firm’s corporate culture and employee experience.

As a lawyer, she has long-standing experience in employment law as well as in human resources, both from working at a DAX30 company and practising with CMS. She has particular expertise providing strategic and innovative HR advice and supporting the legal teams of international corporations and German start-ups. Paula advises CMS clients in particular on restructurings, outsourcings and transfers of undertakings, also negotiating with employee representatives. She regularly speaks on employment law and HR topics at trade fairs and conferences.

Paula Wernecke joined CMS as counsel in 2019. Prior to that, she was with Adidas AG (since 2012), most recently as Senior Director Global Legal & Compliance in the role of Head of Global Legal HR & Labor Relations.

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Memberships & Roles

  • Cologne Bar Association
  • Cologne Lawyers’ Association
  • European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA)
  • Deutscher Arbeitsgerichtsverband e. V. (association of German labor courts)
  • German Women Lawyers Association (djb)

 

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Publications

  • „Gleiches Geld für gleiche Arbeit“, Personalmagazin, Heft 06/2023
  • „Handlungsanweisungen „Equal Pay“, Diversity in Recht und Wirtschaft, Heft 02/2023
  • Fachbeitrag: "Worauf es beim Beschäftigen von Freelancern ankommt", Personalwirtschaft, Heft 06/2023
  • Interviewbeitrag "Was ist beim Thema Mobilitätsbudget zu beachten", Personalwirtschaft, Heft 04/2023 
  • Interviewbeitrag "Arbeitsrechtliche Fragestellungen im Metaverse", WirtschaftsWoche, 8.7.22
  • "Das neue Lieferkettengesetz – Was erwartet Unternehmer und HR-Verantwortliche ?", AuA (Arbeit und Personal), 07.07.22
  • Interviewbeitrag "Nachweisgesetz", FAZ, 28.06.2022
  • Fachbeitrag zum Lieferkettengesetz (Zeitschrift für Personalmanagement und Arbeitsrecht), 20.06.22
  • Das neue Lieferkettengesetz - CMS + Deutschen Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen e.V. (DGVN), 09.11.2022
  • "Was es beim Abschluss von neuen Betriebsvereinbarung zu mobiler Arbeit zu beachten gilt", Haufe / personalmagazin am 13.09.2022
  • "Nachhaltige Unternehmenskultur - Kernfunktion von HR-Praktische und juristische Lösungsansätze und Risiken", ZAU- Zeitschrift für Arbeitsrecht im Unternehmen, Erscheinungsdatum: 06.05.2022, Heft 04, S. 258-259
  • Fachbeitrag zu "AUA Lieferkettengesetz", Zeitschrift für Personalmanagement und Arbeitsrecht , 10.05.2022
  • "Ukraine-Krieg: Wie Arbeitgeber rechtssicher helfen können", Newsletter Amadeus Fire, April 2022
  • "Long Covid Folgen und die Auswirkung aufs Arbeitsverhältnis", Personalwirtschaft, 12.04.2022
  • "HR statt PR – Nachhaltigkeit als Kernaufgabe des Personalmanagements?", Amadeus Fire, 29.03.2022
  • "Freiwillig 3G im Betrieb?", Haufe, 23.03.2022
  • "Arbeitsvertragsrecht/Kündigungsrecht: BEM-Durchführungsanspruch des Arbeitnehmers ?", Der Betrieb, Februar 2022
  • "Online-Krankschreibung ohne ärztliche Untersuchung nicht ausreichend – Anforderungen der Rechtsprechung an die Beweiskraft einer AU-Bescheinigung", blog-Beitrag - Beck Community am 24.11.2021
  • Mythen "Lieferkettengesetz", Haufe am 23.11.2021
  • "KI im Recruitingprozesse", Haufe am 11.10.2021
  • "Das Entscheider-Briefing für den Gesundheitssektor", Tagesspiegel Background Gesundheit & E-Health am 20.04.2021
  • "Testpflicht im Betrieb", Handelsblatt, 12.04.2021
  • "O-Ton für MDR Aktuell Nachrichtenradio / Testpflicht für Betriebe", MDR, 12.04.2021
  • "Testpflicht vs. Impfpflicht: Was dürfen Arbeitgeber anordnen?", Amadeus Fire am 20.04.2021
  • "Neues vom EuGH: Wann Bereitschaftszeit zu Arbeitszeit wird", Blog-Beitrag Human Resources Manager vom 15.03.2021, gemeinsam mit Kira Falter

 

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Lectures list

  • "Kein Individualanspruch des Arbeitnehmers auf Durchführung eines BEM", Der Betrieb (DB), 2022, 741   
  • "Keine Benachteiligung wegen des Geschlechts aufgrund arbeitgeberseitiger Verwendung des Gendersternchens", Der Betrieb (DB), 2021, 2296
  • "Personal und Arbeitsrecht", Bitkom AK, 28.06.2022
  • "Nachhaltigkeit und HR", CMS intern, 06.04.2022
  • "Arbeit 4.0 sowie "Personal & Arbeitsrecht", Bitkom Akademie, April 2
  • "HR statt PR - Handlungsfelder zu Nachhaltigkeit im Personalmanagement, CMS Webinarreihe, 06.04.2022
  • Kooperationsveranstaltung - "Lieferkettensorgfaltsgeset"z, Deutsche Gesellschaft der UN, 30.03.2022
  • "ESG und Arbeitsrecht", BUJ HR-Sustainability, 17.03.2022
  • "Political Year Ahead, BEERG Meeting, Brüssel, 09./10.03.2022
  • "New Ways of Working for Employees - what is changing ?" XBHR-Online Konferenz, 03./04.03.2022
  • "Digitale Personalakte", Business Leads am 24.02.2022
  • HR networx, 15.12.2021
  • "Arbeitsrechtliche Fragen rund um Testpflicht & Co.", BUJ Talk, Fachmedien Otto Schmidt KG, 29.04.2021
  • "Aufholjagd 2021 - Runter von der Corona-Bremse – mutig rauf aufs Gaspedal!", HR Fitness Club, Webinar, 05.03.2021, gemeinsam mit Daniel Hennig
  • What’s on The EU Agenda & After Brexit, 12.01.2021
  • The Covid Impact on the World of Work & Virtual LR/ER, BEERG-Webinar, 19.01.2021

 

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Education

 

  • Legal Traineeship in Nuernberg, additional qualification as a commercial mediator (MuCDR)
  • Law studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

 

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Expertise

Feed

22/08/2022
CMS appoints Paula Wernecke as new Chief Human Resources Officer
Berlin – International commercial law firm CMS Germany has appointed a new Chief Human Resources Officer. Paula Wernecke will take over the role from Dr Marcel Klugmann on 1 September 2022. Klugmann...
Press releases
18/05/2022
Ukraine conflict: What are employers' legal options to help?
How can employers support employee volunteering? Are employers allowed to preferentially hire Ukrainian refugees? Amid catastrophes and wars throughout the world, Germany is showing great solidarity in...
Law-Now Labor, Employment & Pensions
11/05/2022
Embedding the ‘S’ in ESG in the workplace
Attracting and retaining talent has become more challenging following the Covid-19 pandemic. However, employers with a clear and genuine commitment to the ‘social’ aspects of ESG are more likely to...
Event Webinar
13/04/2022
Putting the ‘S’ in ‘ESG’ - Lexicon of most important terms and phrases...
Companies across all sectors and markets are increasingly being evaluated on their environmental, social and governance (ESG) actions. ESG factors are now being used to determine the level of risk a company...
Law-Now ESG
02/02/2022
Sustainable travel – scope for structuring by the HR department
Now more than ever, the issue of sustainable travel can impact a company's image. In order to make good use of this within a company, it is essential for the company to distance itself from a status-ori­ented...
Law-Now Labor, Employment & Pensions
20/01/2022
Five myths about the German Supply Chain Act
The German Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains (Supply Chain Act or SCDDA) has been passed. Its objective is to get companies to incorporate human rights and environmental protection...
Law-Now ESG
19/01/2022
Sustainable office – a rethinking of office concepts
Can a rethinking of the office drive the sustainability agenda forward? Below we address the question of how the topic of sustainability can find its way into everyday office life. The main focus will...
Law-Now Labor, Employment & Pensions
05/01/2022
HR instead of PR – sustainability as a core task of human resources management
How can companies achieve professional sustainability and what role does HR play? The topic of sustainability is becoming more important in all areas of life. It is impossible to imagine the working world...
Law-Now Labor, Employment & Pensions
15/11/2021
German court rules couriers must be assigned roadworthy bikes and smartphones
Flexible working hours, hip employers and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are attracting employees to the delivery industries. However, delivery services have been the subject of frequent criticism from...
Law-Now Labor, Employment & Pensions
11/02/2021
The Future is Now: The New World of Work in Germany
COVID-19 and protective measures put in place in response to the pandemic have compelled businesses in countries around the world – including Germany – to adopt a new vision for employment. One such...
Law-Now Labor, Employment & Pensions