K31 - Labor LawReturn

The article explores the legal dimension of unpaid work, particularly within the context of Slovak households, where this form of labor remains largely invisible to formal legal regulation. Unpaid work is approached as a multidimensional phenomenon, with the analysis situated within the normative framework of the Slovak Republic. The aim is to identify whether existing legislation—especially in the field of family law—can be considered an adequate legal regulation of unpaid household labor. The research is based on the methods of abstraction, legal analysis and normative evaluation (de lege ferenda). The findings reveal that the current regulation is minimal, vague, and lacks enforceability. While the introduction of binding legal standards might improve clarity, it also risks undermining the private-law character of family relations. The article concludes by reflecting on the normative limits and feasibility of more precise legal intervention in this area.

The main topic of the paper is a comparison of maternity benefits in the Czech Republic and Poland. The first part is dedicated to the definition and description of maternity leave and its grounding in the social security systems of both countries, based on the current legislation in both countries. Next, the maternity benefits in the Czech Republic and Poland are presented in tables which yields interesting results for the observed period. The third part represents the core of the paper – comparison of the maternity benefits in the Czech Republic and Poland. The expenditures in both countries in the observed period 2010-2019, including their proportion to the total social security expeditures, as well as birth rates in the said time period, are graphically presented in this part. In the final part, the obtained data are evaluated and the results of the comparison are discussed.

Recent times have shown that we need to address issues such as electronic communication related to home office and telecommuting. In many places, the physical workplace has been transformed into a back office-type organizational unit. Exchange of information between an employee working in a home office or teleworking and the back office. In our study below, we examined how the exchange of information between the individual units can be implemented in Hungary and Poland. In this study, we examine the legal and economic framework. We examined the relationship between digitization and SMEs through job advertisements and a questionnaire survey. The focus of our study was on accounting and decision support tasks. Our research question: What are the expectations of SMEs nowadays for accounting and decision support tasks and jobs? What are the labour law implications and consequences of these expectations?