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AUC IURIDICA, Vol 67 No 2 (2021), 91–101
Osobní ochranné pomůcky jako novotvar pracovního práva
[Personal Protective Measures as a New Feature of Czech Labour Law]
Martin Štefko
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23366478.2021.15
published online: 31. 05. 2021
abstract
This article considers international, EU-law and Czech national law that regulates personal protective instruments. Special attention is given to face masks as set forth by emergency decisions issued by the Czech Government during its campaign against the covid-19 virus. The government insists on universal duty to wear face masks despite contradictory laws and two court decisions that abrogated respective governmental decisions. Face masks can have a certain role in the state contingency policy against the virus, but its efficiency seems to be overestimated. The fundamental question raised by this article is, what legal status can be assigned to the face masks?
keywords: duty of care; personal protective equipment
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