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Employment References

Under § 109 GewO, employment references must be issued in writing on request to every employee; a qualified reference must certify performance and conduct during the employment relationship in individually phrased prose and may contain no hidden negative evaluations. Employment and interim references combine performance evaluations with names and employment data. anonym.legal pseudonymizes that data GDPR-compliantly so references can be used as wording templates and training material without exposing the identities of the evaluated employees, while the evaluation text remains intact.

By the numbers

  • Das Bundesarbeitsgericht hat mit Urteil vom 27. April 2021 (9 AZR 262/20) entschieden, dass eine tabellarische Darstellung mit Schulnoten den Anspruch auf ein qualifiziertes Arbeitszeugnis nach § 109 GewO nicht erfüllt; individuelle Leistungs- und Verhaltensbeurteilungen müssen zwingend in Prosaform formuliert sein.

    BAG, Urteil vom 27. April 2021, 9 AZR 262/20, Bundesarbeitsgericht

  • Nach § 109 GewO haben alle Beschäftigten beim Ausscheiden einen gesetzlichen Anspruch auf ein schriftliches Zeugnis; auf Verlangen muss dieses als qualifiziertes Zeugnis auch Leistung und Verhalten im Arbeitsverhältnis umfassen — das Recht gilt ohne Mindestzugehörigkeit und ohne Unternehmensgröße-Schwelle.

    § 109 GewO, Gesetze im Internet (Bundesministerium der Justiz)

When this doesn't apply

  • anonym.legal erstellt keine Arbeitszeugnisse und prüft nicht, ob Formulierungen den Grundsätzen der Zeugniswahrheit und Zeugnisklarheit nach § 109 GewO entsprechen — die inhaltliche Verantwortung liegt beim ausstellenden Arbeitgeber.
  • Die Software pseudonymisiert Personendaten in Zeugnissen für Muster- oder Schulungszwecke, ersetzt aber keine arbeitsrechtliche Prüfung der Zeugnisnoten oder Schlusssätze.
  • Handschriftlich unterzeichnete Originale, die nicht eingescannt vorliegen, können nicht verarbeitet werden; die gesetzlich vorgeschriebene Schriftform des Originals bleibt unberührt.

Tasks

About this page

We update this page when our platform or the law changes.

Read our founder note for how we work.

Each change shows up in the timestamp at the top.

Related reading

We follow these rules

  • GDPR (EU 2016/679).
  • ISO/IEC 27001:2022.
  • NIS2 (EU 2022/2555).
  • HIPAA safe harbor under 45 CFR § 164.514(b)(2).

Our promise

We do not sell your data.

We do not train models on your text.

We store your files in Germany.

You can delete your account at any time.

You own your work.

Where we run

Our company HQ is in Saarbrücken, Germany. Our servers run in Hetzner's Falkenstein datacenter.

Hetzner holds ISO 27001 certification.

All data stays in the EU.

Backups run every day.

Need help?

Email support@anonym.legal.

We reply within one business day.

How we test

We run a full check suite on every release.

Each surface gets its own sweep script and report.

Human reviewers spot-check the output each week.

We track recall and precision on a labelled set.

Bad runs block the deploy.

What we never do

  • We never sell your information to third parties.
  • We never train models on what you upload.
  • We never keep your work after you delete it.
  • We never share keys with any outside firm.
  • We never run ads inside the product.

Plans in plain words

We sell credits, not seats.

One credit covers one short job.

Long jobs use a few credits each.

You can top up at any time.

Unused credits roll over each month.

Read the plans page for current rates.

Who built this

A small team of engineers and lawyers built this.

We ship from Europe and work in the open.

Our founder note spells out why we started.

Where to start

How the parts fit

A browser add-on cleans text inside Chrome.

A Word plug-in handles drafts in Office.

A small desktop tool works on whole folders.

An agent protocol link feeds large models safely.

All four share one core engine and one rule set.

Words from our team

We started this work after a lunch about cookies.

One friend kept getting odd ads on her phone.

We asked why a court file leaked through a draft.

We sketched the first build on a napkin that week.

By month three we had a tiny demo for a friend.

She used it on her first case the next day.

Common questions we hear

Can the tool read scanned PDFs? Yes, with OCR.

Does it work on long files? Yes, in small chunks.

Can I roll my own rule set? Yes, save it as a preset.

Does it run offline? The desktop build runs offline.

Do you keep my files? No, the cloud build wipes after each run.

Will it learn from my work? No, we never train on inputs.

A short tour of the workflow

Upload a file or paste a snippet of prose.

Pick the entities you want gone from the draft.

Choose a method: replace, mask, hash, encrypt, or redact.

Press run and watch the side panel show each hit.

Skim the result and tweak any rule that misfired.

Save the cleaned file or send it to a teammate.