Die betriebliche Übung

The »company custom and practice« is generally regarded as the regular and uniform repetition of a certain behavior by the employer from which the employees may infer that they are to be granted a benefit or another privilege on a continuing basis. The legal grounds for the validity of the company custom and practice are still in dispute. Christian Picker explains that it is only the employer's will which can be the legal grounds for the validity of »company custom and practice.« Using this as an example, he shows the basic unity of individual labor law and general civil law.