Innovation relies on human knowledge, skills and creativity to develop new technology and utilize to benefit human society. Humans with that knowledge, or those skills, and that creativity are a precious and scarce commodity, and, therefore, in high demand in those economies that generate the most innovation.

Due to the decision of the Council of the European Union in October 2022 to prolong the decision 2022/382 of 4th March 2022, as the European Commission proposed it, for one year, the Czech parliament has prolonged the temporary protection until 31st March 2024. In national law, the law No. 65/2022 Sb. was changed accordingly. An electronic registration is obligatory as of 30th January 2023 until 31st March 2023. Many other EU countries did this as well, and the European countries with similar rules, like Denmark, and Switzerland, Norway and the UK, have prolonged this protection, too.

The Office for Personal Data Protection (the "Office") has published its control plan for 2023.

The first area of focus for the Office is the regular monitoring of embassies processing Schengen visas applications. Next, the Authority will focus on companies that engage in telemarketing. The audit of these companies will examine whether they have a title for processing personal data and whether they sufficiently fulfil their information obligations towards data subjects. Designated employers and their attendance systems will also be inspected, in particular to examine which categories of personal data are processed, for how long and whether personal data are processed to the extent necessary to fulfil the purpose.

The Labor Code will ring in far-reaching changes in 2023. Employers in particular should prepare for new obligations which arise for them from the planned amendment to the Labor Code. Major changes have been proposed in particular with respect to work arrangements outside a proper employment relationship, the regulation of work from home, and the communication between employer and employee.