Publication details
Elektronické podpisy a dokumenty v pracovním právu
| Title in English | Electronic signatures and documents in employment law |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Soukromé právo |
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| web | Repozitář MU |
| Keywords | electronic signature; labour law; legislation |
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| Description | The pandemic of covid-19 has significantly reinforced the trend of computerisation and digitalisation of labour law in practice. Employees, whose activities are not physically required directly at the employer's workplace, often already perform their activities remotely. On the other hand, however, it is necessary to reflect the fact that not every employee is tech-savvy and not everyone has the means of electronic communication. At the same time, it is important to bear in mind the risks arising from the relative ease of misuse of electronic transactions. At present, it is relatively easy to falsify, for example, the identity of the sender of an e-mail message or the authorship of another electronic message. Although liberal views are emerging in civil law, and sometimes in employment law, which advocate reducing the requirements for electronic negotiations to a minimum, with the understanding that potential disputes over the authorship and authenticity of an electronic message will be resolved in court proceedings (as is the case today when the authenticity of "paper" documents is in doubt), labour law, precisely in view of the special protection of employees, cannot completely abandon such requirements, as the result could be a substantial disadvantage for employees who would have to deal with litigation on their own, in particular. |