Also in 2021, Constitutional Court rulings and the case law of the higher courts have significantly affected the interpretation of disputed situations regulating the mutual rights and obligations of employers and employees or have completely reversed the positions previously held by the courts. The employment law team at Eversheds Sutherland has selected the TOP 10 case law decisions of 2021 that your HR department should be aware of.

The bill implementing the EU Preventive Restructuring Directive – a means of financial relief for entrepreneurs (companies only) – should have originally been enacted and introduced last year. As the bill has not yet been approved by the Chamber of Deputies, the deadline has been moved to July 2022.