Luca Kazmierczak, LL.M., a graduate of the Master’s program in Business Law—Labor Law & Human Resources Management, has been awarded the Faculty of Business Administration’s prize for a research-intensive thesis for his master’s thesis titled “Enforcing the Principle of Equal Pay Through Pay Transparency.” The prize, worth 1,000 euros, is being awarded for the first time and is sponsored by Alumnity e.V.
“Luca Kazmierczak has done an outstanding job of developing the topic of his thesis,” his thesis advisor, Prof. Dr. iur. habil. Katharina Dahm, proudly emphasizes. The professor is also impressed that the award winner proposed the topic himself. Completed during the 2021–2022 winter semester, the thesis offers significant value to the field of law and, through its outstanding proposal for reforming the current Pay Transparency Act, to lawmakers as well. In a joint article (ZESAR Issue 07/2022), Luca Kazmierczak and Katharina Dahm further explored the necessary legislative reform from the perspective of European law.
The 26-year-old award winner moved from Lower Saxony to Mainz. After earning his bachelor’s degree in business law with a focus on corporate law in Osnabrück, Luca Kazmierczak decided to specialize in labor law and went on to complete his master’s degree in the Department of Economics. Today, he works as a consultant for labor law and employment conditions at a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn in Frankfurt.
“I’m delighted to be the first recipient of this award, and I think it’s great that the Department and Alumnity e.V. are once again giving special recognition to the hard work that goes into students’ bachelor’s and master’s theses,” says the master’s graduate.
The award for a research-intensive thesis is intended to honor students in the Department of Economics who have completed their studies with a thesis that demonstrates a particularly high level of research.
