Labour & Employment law

Illegal work and clandestine employment mediation remain significant issues in the labour market. The amendment to the Labour Inspection Act introduces new powers for inspectors, including the possibility of covertly recording audiovisual material and more effective prosecution of illegal practices. What changes await employers, and what impact will the new inspection procedures have on the business environment? Read more in our article.

Oblast pracovního práva je v posledních letech stále diskutovanějším právním odvětvím, což se odráží i na četnější novelizaci pracovněprávních předpisů. Z dílny Ministerstva práce a sociálních věcí letos vyšla novela zákoníku práce, jejímž cílem je zvýšit flexibilitu pracovněprávních vztahů. Zejména se pak dotýká omezení administrativní zátěže, rozvoje digitalizace ve státní správě a tzv. work-life balance. V rámci veřejného diskurzu se proto pro tuto úpravu vžil pojem „flexinovela“.

Compromise between employee and employer - words which apply to the institute of the competition clause. Both parties make concessions where one provides financial compensation and the other tolerates a temporary restriction of the right. The statutory regulation can be found in §310 of Act No. 262/2006 Coll., the Labour Code...

We already wrote about the planned changes in the labour law in June this year, but during the legislative process several important changes have been made that not only concern the content but also the effectiveness of the amended law. In fact, the Chamber of Deputies has stuck to its original proposal, which means that the expected postponement of the amendment's entry into force to 1 January 2024 will not take place. Most of the significant changes are therefore already effective from 1 October 2023.

In the coming weeks, a major amendment to the Labour Code is to be adopted, which is expected to be effective from 1 January 2024. Although it is still possible that the introduced legislation will change, it is most likely to be only partial details. The main purpose of this amendment is to transpose two EU directives. In other words, the state is obliged to incorporate the legislation contained in the directives into the Czech legal system.

In the next few days, a law that newly introduces discounts on employer-paid social insurance as part of the so-called family package will be published in the Collection of Laws. The government package aims to help families in the context of the energy crisis and rising inflation.

For a long time, we may have been used to travel allowance rates being announced on a regular basis with effect from 1 January, whether or not there has been a change in rates. These rates then generally remained unchanged throughout the calendar year. However, the situation has changed in the last two years, and to date there have already been two changes to the travel allowance rates for 2022.

On Friday, 11 March, the Chamber of Deputies approved a bill that will, among other things, allow refugees from Ukraine to work on the basis of a special visa under temporary protection.

Parmi les nombreux changements intervenus dans le domaine de la sécurité sociale avec effet au 1er janvier 2022 figurent notamment des ajustements de la durée du congé de paternité et de la rémunération des accueillants familiaux.

In its ruling of 15 November 2021, Case No. II ÚS 2925/20, the Constitutional Court addressed the question whether the principle of equality is violated in a situation where an injury to an employee's health is compensated as an accident at work under the Labour Code (Section 271c of the Labour Code) and not under general civil law (Section 2958 of the Civil Code).