ESF:MKP_PRPR Labour Law - Course Information
MKP_PRPR Labour Law
Faculty of Economics and AdministrationSpring 2021
- Extent and Intensity
- 26/0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Ing. Petra Dvořáková, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Marek Pšenko (lecturer)
Mgr. Ing. Martin Štěrba (lecturer) - Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Ing. Petra Dvořáková, Ph.D.
Department of Law – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Mgr. Ing. Petra Dvořáková, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Law – Faculty of Economics and Administration - Timetable
- Sat 6. 3. 16:00–19:50 P201, Sat 10. 4. 16:00–19:50 P201, Sat 15. 5. 16:00–19:50 P201
- Prerequisites
- The course builds on the basic knowledge and skills in the area teory of the law
The students get the knowledge in the Basic Law course. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- there are 18 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
- Course objectives
- Labour law is one of the law branches of the Czech system of law. It comprises a complex of legal norms regulating labour relations that arise between employers and employees. The goal of the regulation is particularly the realization of an individual's right for a job, and setting up basic working conditions, rights and duties of labour-law relations participants. The objective of the course is to make students familiar with basic institutes of labour law and provide them with a survey of valid legal regulations in this field.
At the end of this course students will:
- be able to study labour-law regulations;
- become familiar with respective legal norms;
- be able to draft certain labour-law documents;
- be able to resolve possible labour problems in practice. - Learning outcomes
- At the end of this course students will:
- be able to study labour-law regulations;
- become familiar with respective legal norms;
- be able to draft certain labour-law documents;
- be able to resolve possible labour problems in practice. - Syllabus
- One topic per week:
- 1.Introduction to labour law
- - principles of labour law in connection with Charter of basic rights and freedoms (Convention no. 111 WLO dealing with a ban on job and profession discrimination, regulation of Council no. 76/207/EEC on the implementation of equal treatment for men and women)
- - Conventions by the International Labour Organisation, EU regulations on legal form convergence
- - domestic sources, their amendments, new conception of the Labour Code
- 2. Subjects of labour law
- - labour-law competence of employees, employees as members of a statutory body of a trading company
- - employers – differences between an individual and a corporate body
- - employer's rights and duties in the course of employment
- - written documents submitted by an employee when entering employment
- 3. Employment, origination, changes
- - election, appointment, managerial contract
- - examples of labour contracts, their essentials – legal and agreed (emphasis on probation and chaining of a certain lifetime)
- - types of changes in employment (transfer, displacement)
- 4. Termination of employment
- - ways of termination
- - cases of a notice to quit with an application of notice reasons used in practice
- - legal action for determining nullity of an employment termination
- - compensation money, certificate of employment
- 5. Additional labour-law relations
- - differences between contracts for work carried out outside an employment
- - practicalities of enetring into an agreement for company's practice
- - performance of additional work as another gainful activity (law of cross interests)
- 6. Working time and Recovery holiday
- - length and apportionment of working time
- - use of flexi time in a company
- - regulation of overtime limits and its remuneration (EU regulation no. 2003/88/EC)
- - breaks at work, incessant rest between shifts and within a week
- - significance of a working time account in the new Labour Code
- - basic determination of a holiday and other determinations of a holiday in a business and non-business sphere
- - calculation of a proportion of a holiday for the time of a year spent by working
- - terms of going for a holiday, possibility of a transfer of unused holiday
- 7. Remuneration for work
- - differences between a wage and a salary
- - minimum wage and minimum wage tariffs in comparison with the substinence minimum
- - protection of employees in cases of an employer's insolvency (regulation 2008/94/EC)
- - unpaid wage claims and their exercising in connection with the insolvency law
- - wage rates of employees in public services and administration
- 8.Safety and health protection at work
- - risk prevention (regulation 89/391/EEC)
- - requirements for a workplace and working environment – governmental regulation 361/2007 Coll.
- - work injuries registration – governmental regulation 201/2010 Coll.
- - regulation of smoking ban and alcohol consumption at workplaces
- - working conditions for women, banned work
- - law 251/2005 Coll., about work inspection
- 9. Employee's and employer's liability for damages
- - liability function
- - terms for an origination of liability for damages, differences from civil law
- - employee's general liability, compensatory damages
- - agreement on material responsibility in a company practice
- - compensation for work injuries and professional diseases, conversion to the concept of law on casualty insurance with the Czech Social Security Administration
- 10. Collective bargaining
- - function and structure of labour unions, tripartite
- - foundation of unions and European Councels of Employees
- - making collective treaties, solving collective disputes
- - strike in the concept of the Czech legal order
- 11. Legal regulation of employment
- - WLO Convention no. 168 on employment support
- - tools of active policy in employment and their implementation in regions
- - problems of illegal work
- - right for employment
- - procedure for work mediation at employment offices
- - conditions for getting an unemployment benefit and its amount
- - agency employment
- - employing people with disabilities (WLO Convention no. 159), working physiotherapy, protected working position and a protected working workshop, allowance for employment support, employer's payments for employees
- 12. Labour law in the European Union
- - free movement of labour force and sending employees within the EU (Council regulation no. 492/2011 on free movement of workers within the community)
- - member states' administrative requirements, legalisation of stay, employment of EU citizens and foreigners in the Czech Republic
- - bilateral agreements in the field of social security
- - Eures system
- Literature
- required literature
- Mervartová, J. Studijní texty „Pracovní právo“. ESF MU. Portál výuky právních předmětů ESF: Webová adresa: http://pravoesf.econ.muni.cz/predmet/pracovni-pravo. Oprávnění ke vstupu do webové aplikace je zveřejněna ve Stud. materiálech předmětu v IS ESF MU
- recommended literature
- BĚLINA, Miroslav. Pracovní právo. 6. dopl. a podstatně přepr. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2014, xxviii, 46. ISBN 9788074002830. info
- GALVAS, Milan, Zdeňka GREGOROVÁ, Jan HORECKÝ, Dana HRABCOVÁ, Kristina CHRÁSTKOVÁ, Jana KOMENDOVÁ, Petr MACHÁLEK, Jaroslav STRÁNSKÝ and Jana ZACHOVALOVÁ. Pracovní právo. 2., dopl. a přeprac. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2015, 828 pp. Edice učebnic Právnické fakulty MU, č. 521. ISBN 978-80-210-8021-8. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, readings, person-to-person tuition, homeworks.
- Assessment methods
- The course finishes with a written exam.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
General note: Nezapisují si studenti, kteří absolvovali předmět KPPRP.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: tutorial 13 hodin.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2021, recent)
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