The Czech Act on Protection of Whistleblowers (“Whistleblowing Act”) which implements the EU Whistleblowing Directive 2019/1937 was finally adopted and will become effective from 1 August 2023. The Whistleblowing Act introduces the obligation of employers to establish a whistleblowing channel to enable reporting of selected violations, and to protect individuals that filed such report.
An extensive amendment to the Act on Consumer Protection and the Civil Code came into effect on 6 January 2023. In this article we focus on changes introduced by the amendment in relation to liability for defects and guarantee.
On 17 May 2020, after more than 2 months, the state of emergency declared due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the Czech Republic on 12 March 2020, finally ended. This alert summarizes the most important consequences for your employees.
In this alert we provide you with an overview of the current situation in Slovakia as of 23 March 2020, as well as with answers to the most frequent questions that employers ask in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak. Q: What is the current situation in Slovakia? On 11 March…
Governmental Financial Support to Employers Extended On 23 March 2020 the Czech government decided that all extraordinary measures adopted during the state of emergency will be extended until 1 April 2020. For more details on this measures, you can check our previous alerts here, here and here. In addition, the…