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29 July 202129 July 2021employment contract, intellectual property

Are provisions regulating copyrights necessary in employment contracts with staff?

Employers frequently find no need to include provisions in employment contracts that regulate copyrights to work produced by an employee. They rest on the general principle that the employer automatically acquires economic copyrights to work created in the course of performing assigned tasks¹ or that the right to them arises to his benefit by law (as in the case of computer software)². Therefore, regulations in an employment contract are unnecessary. This is obviously true to a certain degree. The devil nevertheless lies in details. If an employer solely rests on statutory provisions, he may not obtain complete security and full rights that could be secured if certain matters were contractually stipulated.

6 May 20216 May 2021employment contract

How much compensation for a non-compete clause on employment termination? When a regulation is short, doubts are many

The shorter a regulation, the more questions and doubts it raises. And so it is in the case of Article 101(2) § 3 of the Labour Code, which regulates the minimum amount of compensation for a non-compete clause (or restrictive covenant) after employment termination. Compensation may not be lower than 25% of the remuneration the employee received before employment termination, for the duration of the competition ban. How this is interpreted is important.

23 April 2021contract termination, employment contract

Sickness absenteeism as a cause for employment termination?

Employee sickness and absenteeism from work are inherent business risks which the employer has to take into account. An employee’s absence from work can be so frequent that it significantly affects the functioning of the workplace. In such situations, it may be in the employer’s interest to terminate such an employee’s employment contract and hire someone else to take their place. Labour Code provisions oblige employers to specify the reason justifying such a decision in the notice terminating indefinite-term contracts (Article 30 § 4 of the Labour Code). Does regular sickness absenteeism constitute an independent and sufficient reason for termination?

8 April 20218 April 2021hiring foreigners

Change of entity entrusting performance of work to a foreign citizen in the context of a permit for temporary residence and work

At present, a change of work does not constitute any kind of extraordinary situation, with foreign citizens not being an exception to this. However, they do not all have unlimited access to the labour market. Quite the contrary: employment is often dependent on prior acquisition of a work permit. And what happens in situations where a change of employer takes place in the course of proceedings to obtain a permit for temporary residence and work? What are the changes that do not require a change to a decision and what are the ones requiring the lodging of a respective motion? And finally, is it possible to change employer after receiving a residence card?