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Although employers were formerly obliged to submit their annual health and safety reports to the Office of Public Health (UVZ) concerning category two employees by January 15th 2020, the UVZ has indicated that it will remain open for submissions until the 28th of February 2020 …

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With effect from May 1st, 2019 employees working on Saturdays are now entitled to an additional payment of at least 50% of the statutory minimum wage per hour and Sunday workers entitled to a salary premium of 100% of the minimum wage per hour …

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Since January 1st 2019, employers with 49+ staff have been under an obligation to offer their employees a highly paternalistic holiday allowance known as “holiday voucher” …

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With effect from 2019 the national minimum wage will rise by 8 …

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All employers must now include the base salary of a job when advertising it …

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Failed mediation efforts at PSA Peugeot Groupe’s Trnava plant has resulted in unions threatening strike action …

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A suspicion of bid rigging for public tenders has led to the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic (NCA) recently raiding the premises of several large construction companies …

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A new Personal Data Protection Act will come into force on the 25th of May to incorporate the requirements of the GDPR …

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Some major changes have just taken place in the Slovak Labour Code …

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The compressor and condenser manufacturing company Embraco has reached a new collective agreement with local trade unions …

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Commencing January 1st 2018, the minimum wage in Slovakia will rise 10 …

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A government-sponsored parliamentary Bill awaiting approval would modify the Labour Code by increasing the wage surcharge for night work from 20% to 50% of an employee’s own basic minimum wage (S123 …

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Economists are struggling to work out what is happening to the EU’s eastern member states …

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Over the year to May 2017, average gross monthly industrial earnings in Slovakia increased by 3 …

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Over the year to Q4 2016 the average gross monthly earnings in the Slovak Republic rose by 3 …

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