ABSTRACT
The three main fields of German employment law are ‘Arbeitsvertragsrecht’ (individual employment contract law), ‘kollektives Arbeitsrecht’ (collective employment law) and ‘Arbeitsschutzrecht’ (work protection law). The latter two largely developed after 1900, due to the fact that the BGB only concerned itself with ‘Dienstvertragsrecht’ (law relating to contracts of service).1
