Law in Business

Syllabus

1. THEORY OF LAW Sources of law, legal rules (scope, types), system of law (public and private law, national and international law), application of law (bodies and procedures of law application, acts of law application), responsibility in law. 2. CIVIL AND CONSUMER LAW Legal regulation of consumer protection in the Civil Code (consumer contracts, contract parties, unacceptable conditions). Consumer Protection Act (consumer rights, obligations of entrepreneurs, provision of services, prohibition of consumer deception and unfair commercial practices, information obligations of entrepreneurs, complaints). 3. CONSUMER LAW Private and public liability in consumer protection. Protection of consumer rights. 4. BASIC INSTITUTES OF COMMERCIAL LAW Business activity, entrepreneur, basic identification features of the entrepreneur, entrepreneur's conduct, enterprise, business assets, business property, net business property, equity, trade secret, commercial register. 5. LICENSED TRADE Types of trades, entities authorized to operate a trade, conditions for operating a trade and obstacles of operating a trade, origination and termination of a trade license. 6. BUSINESS COMPANIES AND COOPERATIVES 1 General information about business companies, basic concepts. General partnership, Limited partnership, Limited liability company. 7. BUSINESS COMPANIES AND COOPERATIVES 2 Joint stock company, Joint stock company with a variable share capital, Simple joint stock company, Cooperative. 8. OBLIGATIONS AND OBLIGATION RELATIONSHIPS IN COMMERCIAL LAW Creation of obligations, special methods of concluding a contract according to the Commercial Code, contracts in commercial law, torts in commercial law, change of obligation relations, securing of obligations, extinction of obligations. 9. ECONOMIC COMPETITION Protection and promotion of economic competition, its legal regulation according to the Commercial Code and Act on the Protection of Competition. 10. LABOUR LAW 1 Concepts of employment relationship and dependent work, elements of employment realtionship, types of employment relationship, work from home, concept of “kurzarbeit”, creation of employment relationship, employment contract, probationary period, change of employment relationship. 11. LABOUR LAW 2 Termination of employment relationship, agreement on termination of employment relationship, termination by notice, immediate termination of employment relationship, termination of employment within the probationary period. 12. LABOUR LAW 3 Employment evaluation and confirmation of employment, severance pay, working time, rest periods, on-call time, overtime work, paid holidays. Agreements on work performed outside of employment relationship. Collective labour-law relations. 13. TAX LAW Concept of tax, functions of tax, construction of tax, tax categorization in the Slovak Republic, tax system of the Slovak Republic, direct taxes (personal income tax, corporate income tax, motor vehicle tax, local taxes), indirect taxes (value added tax, consumption taxes), administration of taxes.