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30th December 2020 / Good governance / Legal Reform and Transparency


Ten of the most burning questions about the new arrangements relating to holiday breaks

The amendment to the Labour Code, which was adopted in the summer of this year, has also brought new developments in the field of holiday breaks, which take effect as early as January 1, 2021. You probably already know that working-day leave is to be cancelled, or that we move from expressing holidays in days to expressing holidays in hours.

29th December 2020 / Good governance / Legal Reform and Transparency


Legal Update - December 2020

Amendment of the Business Corporations Act – amendments to the legal framework of a limited liability company

 

 

21st December 2020 / Good governance / Legal Reform and Transparency


Mazars Tax Alert: Brexit - important changes in VAT from 1 January 2021

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (hereinafter as ‘the United Kingdom‘) stopped being a member of the EU on 31 January 2020. A ‘transition period‘ has been underway from 1 February 2020 to 31 December 2020, where the procedures in the area of taxation and customs remained the same as if the United Kingdom had remained a member of the EU.

18th December 2020 / Economic policy / Business and Industry


AmCham 2020 General Assembly: Debating the key questions facing your business and the Czech economy - Outline

The COVID19 pandemic has disrupted economic equilibrium, and will continue to. Business leaders face more unknown unknowns than at any point in the last half century. With its General Assembly series of events, AmCham will attempt to pose the questions you need to guide your business successfully through the pandemic and beyond, and rely on the unified expertise of its members to find the answers that will enable us to become a top ten economy in the EU by 2025.

Strategic Directions for Czech Economic Policy

  1. Transition to High-Tech Manufacturing and Exports
  2. The City Campus as Idea Factory
  3. Government Programs and Processes That Drive Innovation
  4. Government as a Competitive Advantage, including Digitization

Advocacy Priorities for 2023 
 
Technology, People, Infrastructure

 

Actions Recommended in Areas:

1. Establishing Policy Objectives for Research.

2. Research Investment and Cooperation. Big Bets (Key Technology Projects).

3. Establishing Databases for Tracking Public Policy Outcomes.

4. Public Procurement as an Innovation Tool.

5. Immigration of STEM Talents.

6. Digitization of Immigration. 

7. Adult Reskilling and Upskilling.

8. Digitization of Land Use.

9. Infrastructure Development, including Technology Parks.

 

 

Read the documents in English and Czech.

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