Good governance / Legal Reform and Transparency

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13th December 2021 / Good governance / Legal Reform and Transparency


What are the consequences (in the Czech Republic) of late wage payments via cashless transfer?

Payments via cashless transfer may have become the utterly mundane standard, but the devil is in the detail, so it’s best to painstakingly follow the rules, especially in labor-law relations. Falling behind pay day may expose employers to claims for damages.
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13th December 2021 / Good governance / Legal Reform and Transparency


HR Legal Alert - Antivirus Programme Extension

Mode A Mode B Antivirus will be valid until 30 June 2022 Reintroduction of the crisis care allowance The return of the isolation allownance Minimum wage increase
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9th December 2021 / Good governance / Legal Reform and Transparency


Inspection activities of the Czech Data Protection Authority in 2021 – what are the key findings?

The Czech Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) has recently published an overview of its inspection activities (Czech) for the first half of 2021. Although a significant part of the inspections this year concerned the public administration and the non-profit sector, the DPA’s conclusions from some of these inspections may also be useful for controllers and processors in the private and commercial spheres. In addition, the DPA also carried out a number of inspections regarding the sending of commercial (marketing) communications, where it again drew attention to non-compliance with what are often very basic rules. We have therefore prepared a short summary of the key take-aways from the published inspections.
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