Dr. Helmut Preyer

Partner

Working Experience

• Partner, Burgstaller & Preyer Rechtsanwälte GmbH since January 2001
• Partner, Cerha, Hempel & Spiegelfeld (1998 to 2000)
• Partner, Schönherr Barfuss Torggler & Partners (1989 to 1998)
• Attorney at law, Schönherr Barfuss Torggler & Partners (1987 to 1988)
• Admitted to the bar, 1987
• Associate, Schönherr Barfuss Torggler & Partners (1984 to 1987)
• Foreign Associate at Pritchard Englefield & Tobin, London (1982-1983)

Legal Education

University of Vienna, Dr. iur. (1981)

Memberships

• Founding member of European Employment Lawyers Association – EELA
• British-German Jurists’ Association
• Member of the disciplinary council of Vienna Bar Association (1993 to 2002)

Publications

• Co-editor and co-author of the “Kommentar zum Angestelltengesetz” (Commentary on Austrian employment law, F. Marhold, G. Burgstaller, H. Preyer [eds.], Manz-Verlag, 2007, with regular updates).;
• Co-author of the “Handbuch Arbeitsrecht” (Labour Law Manual, Kuras [ed.], Manz-Verlag, 1997, with regular updates).
• “Kein Einbezug von Konzernoptionen in Beendigungsansprüche” – OGH 23.7.2019, 9 ObA 87/19p, ZAS 2020/17
• “Ausgewählte arbeitsrechtliche Aspekte des Schwarzarbeitsbekämpfungsgesetzes” (Selected labour law aspects of the Act to Combat Undeclared Work and Unlawful Employment) in Mayer (ed), Schwarzarbeit: Pfuscht der Gesetzgeber (Undeclared work: the legislator’s blunder) Manz-Verlag 1999;
• Chapter on “Austria” in “Employment in the European Union” (Clifford Chance, 1996);
• “Race and Religious Discrimination in Context” (AIJA manual, 1996).

Lecturing

Regular seminar and lecture activities in the field of labour law; Anwaltsakademie (Academy of the Austrian Bar Association)

Languages

German, English