Constitutional Court: employees deserve wages for on-call breaks

The Constitutional Court stood up for a firefighter from Ostrava airport. During his break from work, the firefighter had to remain ready to intervene even at the farthest point of the…

First three days of sick leave paid again?

Under presently applicable legislation, employees are not entitled to wage compensation for the first three days of temporary inability to work. This practice, referred to as ‘karencni doba’, or a ‘waiting period’ was introduced in 2008 by Mirek…

ERS changed and its further fate questioned

Those of you getting ready to join the ERS regime should pay attention: in the middle of last December, the Constitutional Court cancelled some provisions of the Act on the Electronic…

Amendment to VAT Act clarifies VAT ledger statement requirements

The Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic passed an amendment to the VAT Act in response to the Constitutional Court’s ruling, according to which, within VAT ledger statements, the…

Privacy for thieves

The Constitutional Court finally closed a lengthy dispute over the legality of publishing a thief’s photograph on a social network by the victim of the theft. However, the

Constitutional Court puts a brake on the right to information

The right to information, protected by the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms and further elaborated on in the Act on Free Access to Information and some other laws, is one of the evergreens of administrative justice. The Supreme…

Full damage compensation in car accidents

The Constitutional Court again ruled on compensation of damage in car accidents. After a series of rulings dealing with the amortisation of spare parts used to repair crashed cars, the …

Concurrence of offices before the Constitutional Court

Even though in its new judgement of late September the Constitutional Court opined on the concurrence of the offices of chair of the board of directors and managing director, the ruling…