Transposition of Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2019/1152 into the Czech legal regulation of the Labor Code
Abstract
The aim of the article is to assess to what extent the currently effective legal regulation of the Labor Code corresponds to the requirements contained in Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2019/1152 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 20 June 2019, on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union, which regulates the obligation of employers to inform workers of the essential aspects of the employment relationship. The author first provides some necessary general introduction to the issue of employers' obligation to inform about the content of the employment relationship, both in the context of European and Czech law.
Subsequently, it already deals with Article 4 of the aforementioned directive and other provisions related to it. In this part, it is analyzed in which cases the already effective Czech legislation fulfills the requirements of the directive, and vice versa, in which respects it shows deficits in relation to the directive, and therefore it will have to be changed.
In the last, relatively extensive part of the article, the author deals with de lege ferenda considerations in connection with the given issue.