Course: Law for Managers

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Course title Law for Managers
Course code USSV/FPMN
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šmíd Martin, JUDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Postavení vedoucích zaměstnanců vpracovním právu. Výběr zaměstnanců, uzavírání pracovních smluv. Vnitropodnikové předpisy, pokyny zaměstnavatele. Vybrané povinnosti zaměstnavatele vůči zaměstnanci - pracovní podmínky, bezpečnost práce. Zákaz diskriminace vpracovním právu (výběr zaměstnanců, odměňování, pracovní podmínky). 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. Selected Issues of Obligatory Legal Relationships (Establishment, Change and Termination of Obligations; Selected Contract Types; Securing and Confirming Debt). Commercial Corporations Act (subject matter, relation to the Civil Code, structure). Joint stock company and its statutes. Statutory bodies, liability of members of statutory bodies. Acquisition and conversion of joint stock company and limited liability company.

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 - 39 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an exam - 30 hours per semester
  • Preparation of a presentation (report) - 25 hours per semester
  • Writing a seminar paper - 25 hours per semester
  • Home preparation for classes - 31 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with selected legal issues arising in the exercise of managerial position, especially in the field of labor, contractual and commercial law.
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 distinguish and explain the different ways of creation, changes and termination of obligations, to correctly identify cases of their appropriate use in practice; to characterize business corporations and their bodies, to explain the responsibilities of the members of these bodies in carrying out their activities; to characterize the acquisition and conversion of a limited company and a limited liability company. 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 and the law of business corporations, to search for external solutions for given problems; 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 the establishment of business corporations 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
Written 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
  • Černá, Stanislava. Právo obchodních korporací. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2021. ISBN 978-80-7598-991-8.
  • HŮRKA, Petr; KOMENDOVÁ, Jana; SMEJKAL, Michal a KADLUBIEC, Vojtěch. Flexibilní formy zaměstnání v České republice. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2025. ISBN 978-80-7400-977-8.
  • Moravec, Tomáš. Obchodní společnosti pohledem Corporate Governance. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2021. ISBN 978-80-271-1217-3.
  • Neil, A. Contract Law. Cambridge, 2016.
  • 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.
  • Pichrt, Jan. Zaměstnavatel, zaměstnanec a podnikání v ekonomicky složité době. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2023. ISBN 978-80-7676-473-6.
  • Pokorná, Jarmila. Obchodní společnosti a družstva. Praha: C.H. Beck, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7400-867-2.
  • Prozařování OECD principů corporate governance (CG) do národ. Prozařování OECD principů corporate governance do národních kodexů dobré správy obchodních korporací. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2022. ISBN 978-80-7676-326-5.
  • Šimečková, Eva. Nežádoucí chování na pracovišti: Šikana, diskriminace, monitorování, whistleblowing. Praha: Leges, 2023. ISBN 978-80-7502-698-9.
  • 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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