Labour Code [LC], No. 311 of 2001, consolidated version dated 2018, including amendment up to Act No. 512/2011 Coll. of 14 December 2011, and amendments introduced by Acts 347/2018 Z. z. and 376/2018 Z. z.
As of 01.01.2020, amendments 319/2019 Z. z. will enter into force.
As of 30.07.2020, amendments 307/2019 Z. z. will become effective.
Date:1 Jan 2019;
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Labour Code (English translation as of 1.01.2019)
Date:1 Jan 2020;
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Size of enterprises excluded (≤): 20
Section 73 (1) LC expressly exempts from the procedural requirements applicable to collective dismissals enterprises with less than 20 employees.
This exclusion only covers collective dismissals and the rules on individual dismissals and contracts of employment apply to all enterprises.
Workers' categories excluded: civil/public servants, sportsmen
- On civil/public servants and professional athletes: see sec. 2 LC.
*Sec. 2: (1) This Act shall apply to legal relations in the civil service performance, only where so stipulated by a special regulation.
(2) This Act shall apply to legal relations arising from the public function performance, if so expressly stipulated or if so stipulated by a special regulation.
(3)The legal relations of professional athletes in the exercise of sport on the basis of an agreement for the professional exercise of sport and for legal relations of sport experts in the exercise of an activity on the basis of an agreement for the exercise of activity of a sport expert shall be governed by this Act only if stipulated by a special regulation.
*Sec. 3: "1) Labour-law relations of employees performing work in the public interest shall be governed by this Act, unless stipulated otherwise by a special regulation. [prior to the July 2011 amendments: labour-law relations of employees in the public service performance]
(2) Labour-law relations of transportation employees, members of ships' crew floating under the flag of the Slovak Republic, employees of private security services and professional sports people shall be governed by this Act, unless stipulated otherwise by a special regulation.
(3) Labour-law relations of employees of churches and religious communities which perform clerical activities, shall be governed by this Act, unless stipulated otherwise by this Act, special regulation, international treaty by which the Slovak Republic is bound, a treaty concluded between the Slovak Republic and churches and religious communities, or internal regulations of churches and religious communities."
- On seafarers: there is no general exclusion of seafarers from the Labour Code: sec. 73(9) LC only excludes "crew members of vessels flying the flag of the Slovak Republic" from the provisions on collective redundancies.
- Finally, on other possible exclusions, sec. 3 LC provides that labour relations of, inter alia, employees performing health care occupations, pedagogical employees, employees that are theatrical artists or musicians, members of ships' crew floating under the flag of the Slovak Republic, employees of private security services, employees of churches and religious communities which perform clerical activities, shall be governed by this Act, unless stipulated otherwise by a special regulation.