Specialises in employment law and pension law in the broadest sense. His focuses within those fields including employment contracts, individual and collective dismissals, amendments to terms of employment (including pension), directors, transfer of undertaking, non-competition clauses, employee participation, the performance of due diligence investigations and the transfer of accrued benefits. He also has special expertise in the field of cross-border employment law, in particular in the international transport sector, and in procedural law. Elias represents both employers and employees.