Publication details
Právo pracovní (do roku 1938)
| Title in English | Labor Law (until 1938) |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The password shows the historical development of the legal regulation of labors relations until 1938. The regulation of employment contracts and the respective relationships was formed into an independent branch of law after the communists had gained power. This happened undoubtedly under the influence of Soviet law, but one should not forget that labor regulation of employment contract had gone through a remarkable development and that codification of labor law was being discussed among the ministers right after the republic had been established. ABGB looked on a labor contracts as on any other contracts, i.e. as a relationship of two equal parties. The development of factory work had eliminated paternalistic features, which characterized the older types of employment relationships. Soon it was shown that it is in common interest of society that a weaker party, i.e. employee, is granted certain protection. This idea was expressed in numerous laws, out of which we will only mention certain amendments to Trade proceedings, amendments to Civil Code and First republic’s act on eight-hour working hours. Trade unions became the grounds of the collective labor law. Since the establishment of the League of Nations after the end of the World War, the International Labor Organization (ILO) has contributed to an improvement of labor laws. |