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Consumer protection information
On 5 February 2016, the Czech Bar Association was authorized by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic to deal with alternative consumer dispute resolutions in the field of disputes between a lawyer and a consumer arising from legal service agreements (under Act no. 634/1992 Sb., on consumer protection, as amended). The website of the designated body is www.cak.cz.
Recently, health insurance companies have increasingly requested to be reimbursed for the costs of healthcare provided to workers as a result of accidents at work; they have done so by claims addressed to those employers where the accident had taken place.
The President of the Republic has signed the draft amendment to the Labour Code, as approved by the Chamber of Deputies for the second time after being rejected in the Senate. With effect from 1 July 2019, the waiting period associated with the temporary incapacity for work is abolished.
A practice by the registration courts has been reported recently, whereby these courts request joint-stock companies to demonstrate that they do not employ over 500 employees or that their employees have elected the relevant part of the members of the supervisory board.
The Senate returned the so-called GDPR adaptation legislation to the Chamber of Deputies, with amendments and for further discussion, the purpose of the law being to replace the current Personal Data Protection Act.
On December 19, 2018, the Senate rejected a draft amendment to the Insolvency Act and returned it to the Chamber of Deputies for further discussion; the amendment is primarily intended to deal with the situation of indebted natural persons locked into debt-traps.
The Chamber of Deputies has adopted a proposal amending certain laws in the field of taxes and customs duties.
On 1 January 2019, an amendment to the Public Health Insurance Act entered into force, which brought about a new system of reimbursement of medical devices supplied on medical prescription.
The last amendment of the Act on Bonds introduced - among others - a security agent, i.e. a person who represents the creditors (the owners) of bonds in the process of establishing and executing a collateral.
On January 1, 2019, an amendment to the Act on Offences and to the Road Traffic Act came into force, which aims to eliminate unnecessary administrative burdens in dealing with petty offences, i.e. those associated with minimum social harm.
With effect from 1 January 2019, the basic hourly rate for the minimum wage for 40 hours of working time weekly increases from CZK 73.20 to CZK 79.80, thus creating a range of CZK 12,200 to CZK 13,350 for the monthly salary.
In early November, EPRAVO.CZ organized its 11th “Law Firm of the Year” under the auspices of the Czech Bar Association and the Czech Ministry of Justice.
The Constitutional Court has recently issued another decision on the issue of the so-called concurrence of functions, in which it inferred an unconstitutional interference with the plaintiff’s right to judicial protection in connection with a violation of the freedom of choice and the right to fair remuneration for work.
The Supreme Administrative Court ruled in a case regarding the freedom of information and the right to obtain the erasure in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
In the first half of July, the European Parliament approved the proposal for a directive on copyright in its first reading, a directive known in particular for the controversial Article 13, to which, however, some modifications were made compared to the much-criticized version proposed earlier in the summer.
The amendment of the Road Transportation Act will lead to a change which will affect significantly the road freight transport from 2019 onwards. So far, freight transport has been governed by the Civil Code which however does not contain detailed provisions in this field.
A taxation rules amendment adopted with the aim to transpose into the national legislation the European Directive DAC 5 entered into effect on 5 June 2018. The purpose of the Directive is to ensure that, in performing international tax administration, Member States’ tax administrators have access to certain client data in the possession of banks, payment services providers, lawyers and other professional chamber members as required by the anti-money laundering law.
The judicial decision of 2018, as announced in June during the Karlovarské Právnické Dny Conference, is the Judgment of the Supreme Court which clarified the rules for holding the office of a governing body member and having an employment contract with a company at the same time.
The law firm FORLEX provided complex legal services to the shareholders of ORT – ART, s.r.o. in the sale of their 100% share in the company, a leading private orthopaedic clinic in the Moravian-Silesian region.
The Court of Justice of the European Union (“Court”) ruled that stand-by services which very significantly restrict the employee’s opportunities to have other activities, must be regarded as working time.
On 22 March 2017, the High Court in Prague issued a judgment in which the Court expressed its opinion that even today, under the Business Corporations Act, the prior decisions of the Supreme Court issued while the Commercial Code was still effective will prevail.
The beginning of a new year normally brings a number of legislative changes. The most interesting ones are described briefly below, in our latest Legal Update edition. A full overview of the regulations which enter into effect on 1 January 2018 is available
Two of our lawyers, Pavel Říha and Martin Slaběňák, assisted at the START-UP DAY which took place at the Czech Centre in Paris on 26 October 2017. The event was organized by the Moravian-Silesian Region and the Moravian-Silesian Innovation Centre in cooperation with the Czech Embassy in France. We were glad to share our experience from the business sector around the Moravian-Silesian Region and established new contacts with both Czech and French start-ups...
The beginning of November is approaching together with the effective date of the amendment to the occupational health services. For more detail, read this article in Právní prostor by our lawyers Eva Ostruszka Klusová and Dominik Šolc. First part of the article...
Here are some more legal news brought by FORLEX, where we discuss, among other things, the use of fingerprints by employers or the upcoming changes affecting occupational health services.