Focal Points
Works constitution act and co-determination
Data protection
Employment law compliance and termination law
As an attorney at Littler in Hamburg, Janne Bochmann advises clients primarily on works constitution and co-determination law, data protection, as well as compliance and termination law. She is distinguished by her structured and solution-oriented approach and maintains a clear overview even in complex situations. Her communicative and open-minded manner contributes to clear and efficient collaboration within the team and with clients. Janne finds energy and balance through endurance sports – her perseverance and ability to focus on the essentials also serve her well in her professional life.
Languages: German, English
Career
Admission to the bar, 2025
Legal traineeship in Kiel, Hamburg, and Berlin, including placements in employment law at Norddeutscher Rundfunk, vangard | Littler, and Axel Springer SE
Research assistant at Kliemt
Education
Second state examination at the Higher Regional Court of Schleswig-Holstein with a focus on employment law
First state examination at the University of Kiel with a focus on employment law
Articles and entries
Blogpost
Vacation Law 2026: Employers’ Obligations to Inform, Forfeiture and Illness
October 2026
- Janne Bochmann
Vacation law regularly raises questions in day-to-day business practice. Key issues include the forfeiture of vacation entitlements and the applicable limitation periods, illness during vacation, calculating entitlements for part-time employees, and handling remaining vacation entitlements for employees on long-term sick leave.
Blogpost
Performance Management and Managing Low Performance in the Employment Relationship
May 2026
- Janne Bochmann
- Matthias Pallentin
Companies are currently under significant pressure to transform. Digitalisation, skills shortages, and increasing efficiency requirements mean that employee performance, particularly so-called "low performance", has become an increasingly important issue. From an employment law perspective, low performance constitutes a disruption of the contractual relationship, the assessment of which presupposes clarity as to what performance is owed and by which standards it may be measured. There are various approaches and instruments for systematically defining and continuously assessing such performance requirements, including the implementation of employment law measures in cases of insufficient performance, all of which can be subsumed under the concept of performance management.
Blogpost
The Commission’s Draft Proposal for the EU Inc.
April 2026
- Janne Bochmann
On 18 March 2026, the European Commission published its proposal for an EU-wide legal framework establishing a new form of limited-liability company – the EU Inc. With this draft, the Commission aims to promote start-ups and scale-ups by creating a new European legal form. Digitalisation, standardisation and greater flexibility in company law are at the forefront.