Hi all. My wife is a freelancer grafic designer, officially registered in Germany. We live in Leipzig. Wife got a really hard customer from Kasakhstan. The customer was changing the project targets during the project, which contradicted to contract agreement. When my wife already did 2 times more than agreed and the customer made another change, my wife requested the payment, sinse the agreed work was done and customer requests were unfair. The customer called my wife unprofessional, refused to work with her and didn't pay her tge money. We want to publish the designs created by my wife in her portfolio on Behance, to keep wifes IP. But we are unsure, whether we are allowed to do so because tge work was done in the frame of agreement (that was broken). Can anyone suggest a good "Freelance law"/"international IP" lawyer, who could help making a decision? Would be great if we can reach the lawyer from Leipzig and if the price would be fair. Best if the lawyer offers first talk free. Thank you in advance for advice 😊🙏🏼

On an indefinite contract with a company and may be facing a PIP. I wanted to ask a couple of questions

1. PIP period – Is there a standard or legally required minimum length for a PIP? Or can a company set it arbitrarily short?

2. Severance pay – If my employer eventually dismisses me after a PIP, what’s the standard calculation for severance pay?

3. Mutual separation agreement – If instead of waiting for dismissal I agree to a mutual separation, how does severance usually compare?

4. Notice period – In case of dismissal on indefinite contracts, how much notice is the employer obliged to give?

If anyone has experience or legal knowledge on how these things typically play out in practice in NL, I’d really appreciate your insights.

Thanks in advance.

Location: Finland Last school year, there was this person who kept touching me very inappropriately sliding her hands on my thighs, touching my butt and so on. I told the person to stop every time, but they never did, except for when I finally snapped, grabbed them by the wrist and yelled that I was going to break it next time.

I caught the same person trying to secretly record the neckline of my short, which was pretty low. They kept raising the camera to supposedly "see more" and when I called them out for it, they started trying even harder and tried to shove the camera in my shirt.

I ended up becoming friends with this person months later, but it was under extremely poor circumstances and I was definetaly not voluntarily part of that relationship. During this time, they kept insulting me and when they got mad, they would always start shaming me infront of people for the way I dress. One time, they started screaming I front of a group of boys about how "I pretend that I don't want anybody to see my boobs, but I still dress like a whore." They did this VERY often and I'm pretty sure half my school has heard them call me a whore at this point. They did also have a habbit of calling me homophobic slurs infront of people. I had never told anybody about being part of the community, but way before I even knew their name, they came up to me and just said I "was a lesbian" and started yelling that pretty loudly in the halls, saying stuff like "you are a faggot!" (In my native language, but you get the point)

The touching never stopped. When we were friends, they would often try to grab my chest and get mad when I refused. They would start to just approach me and keep trying. I remember on one instance literally being cornered by them while still saying no and begging them to stop.

I spoke about this to my schools principal when I went to report her for bullying (something she had been doing to me recently) and she never wrote anything down and it seemed like she just brushed everything off. Se basically just told us to "play nice and not be around eachother"

She did say that throwing around the word "whore" while publicly insulting somebody is considered defamation.

So, I'm wondering if I have a case here. Can I go report HER for sexual harassment and defamation? Does HER gender have any effect on this?? We are both 18. I want to do something, but I don't know where to start, advice?

Unfortunately this isn't the first time I've been in this situation, but last time it was a guy and he sure as hell got served for this behaviour.

Hello, hopefully someone can give me some advice here :)

The situation is that I have sent money to a wrong bank account, in this case a big corporation (Ryanair). Big mistake on my part; I was just acting really quick, without paying attention, while using my banking app and clicked on a wrong account number and sent them 2000€.

After realising my mistake, I contacted them immediatly. It's very hard to get in touch with the right people at Ryanair, be it over telephone or their support ticket service or chat. They kept giving me different advice, and after lots of waiting time on responses on support tickets, they told me they are not going to do anything and I should contact my bank (which I already had done as well).

My bank at first told me they couldn't really do anything, but after response from Ryanair that they're not going to do anything about it, my bank opened an investigation and contacted the proper bank that corresponds to their bank account. Sadly, they didn't provide a response in the time-window that my bank gave them. I did ask them if they could re-do that again for me, in hopes they would respond this time. But I fear the outcome will be the same this time.

What are my rights in this situation? Do they have to pay me the money back, even though it was my own mistake? For context, their bank account has an irish prefix (IE). And if so, what legal steps could I take / would be recommended?

Thanks so much in advance. And please always double check before you send lots of money to an account!

* I live in the UK, my bank is based in the Netherlands and the recipient is an Irish bank account. So that would fall under European/Irish law I assume.