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06. 03. 2019

Employee´s legitimate refusal to go on a business trip and compensatory wage

The Supreme Court of the Czech Republic, in its recent decision dated October 9, 2018, f.n. 21 Cdo 1561/2018 dealt with the below-specified issues in the field of ​​labour law in relation to the instruction of an employee to go on a business trip abroad, namely in truck transport. Solved issues The Supreme Court in this decision considered the …

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01. 03. 2019

The protection of whistleblowers in the Czech Republic?

On 18 February 2019, the Ministry of Justice of the Czech Republic submitted a proposal of a new law – an Act on Protection of Whistleblowers[i] to the Czech Government. The legislator has been repeatedly dealing with the issue of the whistleblowing (i.e. reporting or disclosing information on a wrongdoing obtained in a work-related context), …

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22. 02. 2019

Attorney Martin Heinzel became a new member of PEYTON legal team

Attorney, Martin Heinzel, became a member of our team. Martin has significant experience from international law firm. Martin focuses in particular on corporate law, commercial law, legal due diligence, mergers and acquisitions and insolevency law. We wish Martin to enjoy working with us.

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22. 02. 2019

Provability difficulties of counterclaims do not always exclude them from offsetting by the defendant

Since the judicial enforcement of practically certain claims is often delayed by the defendants’ opportunistic set-off objections, the general prohibition of uncertain or indeterminate claims to be set off has been incorporated into the Czech Civil Code. However, the interpretation of the relevant provision of the Civil Code by courts has not gotten settled yet. …

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