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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 53 No 3 (2007), 7–21
Postavení českého pracovního práva v rámci systému evropského a českého práva
[Status of the Czech Labour Law within the System of the European and Czech Laws]
Miroslav Bělina
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2024.130
published online: 23. 01. 2025
abstract
The labour law of the Czech Republic is significantly influenced by the EC law, especially since the late nineties of the last century. The key word for labour law not only in Czech and European context, but also worldwide is becoming liberalization and especially flexibility. The labour law regulation must respect globalisation and liberalization of the world economy, which necessarily brings about requirements for flexibility of the legal regulation. The global trend towards the necessity of certain liberalization is what the European Union has realised, too, as it results, by the way, from the “Green Book of the EU Council of 23 November 2006: Modernisation of labour law, the aims of which is to solve the challenges of the 21st century”, according to which more flexibility in labour law is required, while the basic protection of employee rights should be kept. Unfortunately, such global and European trends are not followed by the new Labour Code adopted in the Czech Republic in 2006. Moreover, the new Labour Code is based on a conceptually new (and therefore unproven by experience and practice) link between the civil and labour law on the principle of delegation instead of the standard principle of subsidiarity. Application of the delegation conception in connection with several ways of specification of directory and mandatory nature of the provisions of the new Labour Code (making it a very rigid and mandatory norm) resulted in the new Labour Code not only in a conceptually incorrect legal regulation, but also in a legal regulation that is quite difficult to understand, evoking application doubts and in several cases making some provisions inapplicable.
keywords: liberalization; flexibility; labour law; labours code; flexicurity; EC law
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