Course: Law for Managers

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Course title Law for Managers
Course code USSV/FPMS
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory, Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Janderová Jana, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Šmíd Martin, JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
The position of executives in labor law. Selection of employees, conclusion of employment contracts. In-house regulations, employer's instructions. Selected obligations of the employer towards the employee - working conditions, safety at work. Prohibition of discrimination in labor law (selection of employees, remuneration, working conditions). Service relationships and their specifics in terms of employee management. Employment of employees of local administration.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book), Methods of individual activities, Work-related activities
  • Contact teaching - 21 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an exam - 20 hours per semester
  • Preparation of a presentation (report) - 20 hours per semester
  • Writing a seminar paper - 15 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 14 hours per semester
Learning outcomes

A student who has successfully completed the course can: to explain the position of executives in labor law, their powers and responsibilities; to characterize the rights and obligations of the employer in labor-law relations; to characterize and distinguish different forms and ways of discrimination in labor-law relations; distinguish the position of executives in the private and public sectors; to characterize rights and obligations of the executive employee in public sector. A student who has successfully completed the course can: to orientate oneself in the legal regulations of the Czech Republic and the European Union concerning labor law including specific issues in public sector; conduct a selection procedure for employees, recruit subordinate employees and enter into employment contracts with them; draw up a comprehensive contract, deed or filing a labor law or commercial corporation law, draw up a purchase contract or work contract, use in practice the various ways to change or terminate an obligation (agreement, termination, withdrawal, offsetting, etc.) and securing and confirming debt; independently and adequately address management problems in management; deal with ordinary legal agenda related to executive position in civil service without legal assistance. The student who has successfully completed the course is able to: formulate their own comprehensive opinion on the presented legal issue in management management; to communicate in a clear and convincing way to professionals and lay people information on the nature of professional issues and their own opinion on their solution.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation, Student performance assessment, Presentation

Exam: written. The condition for participation is min. the extent of attendance at seminars according to the FES decree and completion of the set continuous tasks (presentation, seminar work, solution of model examples).
Recommended literature
  • Bělina, M., Drápal, L. Zákoník práce. Komentář. 4. vyd. Praha. 2023.
  • Pichrt, Jan. Pracovní právo. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2021. ISBN 978-80-7400-853-5.
  • Pichrt, Jan. Případové studie pracovněprávní. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7400-582-4.
  • Pondělíčková, K., Šťastný V. Zákon o úřednících územních samosprávných celků (č. 312/2002 Sb.) ? Komentář. Praha. 2016.
  • Štefko, M. Labour law and social security law at the crossroads: focused on international labour law standards and social reforms. Praha, 2016.


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