Labor Law (in English)

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Included in study programs

Teaching results

Knowledge: The student understands the importance of Labour law for practical life, understands the hierarchy of legal norms, after completing the course. The student understands the economic context of Labour law.
Skills: Ability to orientate oneself in the basic legal regulations of Labour law, which relate to the future profession / business of the graduate. Ability to work with databases of legal regulations (slov-lex.sk, eur-lex.eu) Ability to choose a suitable type of contract and assessment of a simple contract.
Competences: The ability to work with effective legislation and the ability to apply legislation to ordinary acts in practice. Ability to read legal norms with knowledge of basic legal concepts and institutes.

Indicative content

Labour law as a fundamental branch of jurisprudence regulates relations arising in dependent
employment. Terms of individual and collective relations. The subject of interest of labour law also includes relations of liability for damage / unjust enrichment and citizens' right to employment. The aim of teaching is primarily the acquisition of basic institutes that are inherent in labour law. The teaching focuses on the basic institutes of labour law, which are then practiced in solving practical case studies. Approximation of legal and illegal interdisciplinary contexts of labour law with special emphasis on economics. The teaching fully reflects the current changes in Covid-19 labour law. In addition to national legislation, emphasis is also placed on the approximation of the international and European context of labour law. Comparison of out-of-court and court settlement of disputes arising from employment relations.

Support literature

1. KROPAJ, M., BARTALSKÁ, K. Základy pracovného práva pre ekonómov. Bratislava: Ekonóm,
2. 2014, 165 s.
3. KROPAJ, M., MAGUROVÁ, H., SLEZÁKOVÁ, A., VETERNÍKOVÁ, M., JURKOVIĆOVÁ, L., WINKLER, M., VAČOKOVÁ, L. : Základy pracovného práva pre ekonómov. Wolters Kluwer, Bratislava, 2021
4. BARANCOVÁ, H., SCHRONK, R. Pracovné právo. Bratislava: Sprint 2, 2012, 677 s. ISBN. 978-80-89393-82-4
5. EU Intervention in Domestic Labour Law. 2007. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Syllabus

1. Labour law in the system of law - concept, subject, function 2. Interdisciplinary contexts of Labour law - private and public law, legal and non-legal aspects of Labour law, Labour law system 3. Sources and scope of Labour law - normative legal acts, collective agreements, internal normative legal acts, technical norms and good morals, material, personal, temporal and territorial scope 4. International and European Labour law - reasons for origin: social, economic, political, legal, international organizations, EU law 5. Principles of Labour law - social rights, liberty of contract and equal protection of the law 6. Subjects of Labour law and legal acts - Labour law subjectivity - employee and employer 7. Labour relation - concept, elements, types of employment 8. Labour contract - creation, change, termination 9. Termination of employment - legal act, legal event, official decision, law - agreement, termination, termination of employment during the probationary period, immediate termination of employment 10. Invalid termination of employment - deadlines, procedural issues 11. Maternity and parental leave - conditions, times, meaning 12. Liability for damage and unjust enrichment - functions, presumptions of liability for damage and unjust enrichment 13. Agreements on work performed outside the employment relationship - agreement on the performance of work, agreement on work activities, agreement on temporary work of students

Requirements to complete the course

40 % active forms of evaluation during semester
60 % final written exam

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak

Date of approval: 31.05.2023

Date of the latest change: 31.05.2023