Agreement on Termination of Employment
The agreement on termination of employment is often seen as a less confrontational way to end the employment relationship and can help maintain good relations between the employee and the employer.
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Traffic accident as a work-related injury
A traffic accident can affect any of us. However, few people realize that a traffic accident can be considered a work-related injury if it occurs in direct connection with the performance of an employee's work duties. The article answers questions about traffic accidents in the context of Czech law.
Occupational injury resulting from the assault of an employee
Unfortunately, while performing work duties, employees may encounter cases of physical assault. This article will focus on occupational injury in the form of harm to health, its characteristics, consequences, and the obligations of both the employer and the employee. The article focuses on this topic in the context of Czech law.
Immediate Termination of Employment by the Employee
Immediate Termination of Employment by the Employee is an extraordinary method of termination of the employment relationship, which the employee can use in exceptional cases specified by the Labour Code.
PTSD in the Workplace - Czech Republic
Awareness of employees’ mental health is rising in today’s workplaces. This article explains when post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs and when it may be considered a work-related injury.
Agency Employment and Workplace Injuries under Czech law
Remember that a work-related injury can happen to a temporary agency worker just as easily as to your own employee. The employee is entitled to compensation for the workplace injury regardless of whom they were working for at the time.
What is agency employment?
Labor law recognizes, in addition to the classic legal relationship between an employee and an employer, also so-called agency employment. In this legal relationship, the employer is the agency, which assigns its employee to a "user" for compensation. The employee is contractually bound to the employment agency (the staffing agency), which pays them their salary. However, the employee performs their work at the user's workplace, where they are temporarily assigned.
Equal Pay for Employees
Employees should receive the same compensation for equal work. However, since there are still pay gaps between men and women, the European Union has adopted a new directive on pay transparency. It sets out a range of obligations for employers. The goal is to reduce the pay disparities between men and women.
Compensation for Impaired Social Functioning Due to an Occupational Injury
While performing work, employees may suffer an occupational injury or contract an occupational disease. In such cases, they are entitled not only to compensation for pain and suffering, but also to compensation for impaired social functioning.
Compensation for Pain (Pain and Suffering) Under Czech law
If you suffer an accident at work or fall ill with an occupational disease, you are entitled to compensation for the pain you have suffered, known as pain and suffering. The amount of pain and suffering benefits depends on the severity of the injury.