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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Labour Law and Social Security

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 119-0322/03
Abbreviation PPSZ
Course title Labour Law and Social Security
Credits 7
Coordinating department Department of Law
Course coordinator JUDr. Jana Martiníková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Basic term of labour law
- subject, sources and system
- legal-labour facts, participants
2. Determination of employment
- means of determination
- employment contract
3. Change of employment
- changes in employment
- changes on employer´s side
4. Termination of employment
- means of termination
- collective redundancies of employees
- invalidity of employment termination and its consequences
5. Working hours
- working hours period
- overtime work and night work, working emergency
6. Retirement periods
- breaks, retirement between 2 shifts, week retirement
- holidays
7. Wage and salary
- function and forms of wage
- rules of wage payment
8. Compensation for damage in labour relation
- prevention
- legal regulation
- general responsibility for damage made by employee
- types of special responsibility
- execution of compensation demand
9. Responsibility for damage made by employer
- prevention
- legal regulation
- general responsibility for damage made by employer
- types of special responsibility
- execution of compensation demand
10. Working discipline. Safety and protection of health. Care of employees
11. Special working conditions
- Special working conditions for women and youth
12. Agreements concluded outside labour relation
- agreement on working activity
- agreement on work providing
- collateral activity
13. Collective Labour Law
- subjects, sorts
- three-partial
14. Collective negotiations and collective contract
- collective disputes
15. Employment assurance Zabezpečování zaměstnávání
- right to employment
- participants of labour-legla relations
- unemployment support
16. Employment active policy tools
17. Characteristics social welfare
Social welfare system
- function, forms, institutional protection
- insurance payers
- factors deciding insurance´s amount
- insurance payment, limitation, overcharges, penalties
18. Sickness insurance
- legal regulations
- sickness insurance ´s amount determination
- protection period
19. Sickness insurance and its assessments
- sickness
- support when taking card of family member
- compensatory allowance within pregnancy and maternity
- financial support within maternity
20. Pension insurance
- legal regulations
- pension insurance ´s amount determination
- insurance period, backup time, exempt periods
- pensions calculation, pension concourse
21. Pension insurance - assessments
- old-age pension, full invalid pension, partly invalid pension
- widow´s pension, orphans annuity
22. Supplementary insurance
- legal regulation, participants
- entitlements of supplementary insurance
23. State social support
- legal regulation
- personal amount of state social support
- family, deciding incomes, minimum wage, unprovided children
24. State social support – tested allowances
- allowance for child, social allowance, transport allowance, living allowance
25. State social support – untested allowances
- pandering allowance, parential allowance, foster care allowances, birth grant, death grant
26. Social help
- legal regulation, social necessity
27. Social help - types
- family and children care, the handicapped care, elderly care, care of inhabitants needed special help, care of inhabitants socially unadapted
28. Public medical insurance

Literature

Simon Deakin. Labour Law. Hart Publishing, 2012. ISBN 1849463417 .

Advised literature

Gregor Thüsing. European Labour Law. Beck Juristischer Verlag, 2013. EAN 9783406650475.
Social Insurance and Social Justice: Social Security, Medicare and the Campaign Against Entitlements. Springer Publishing Co Inc (United States), 2009. ISBN 9780826116147 .