Employment Law Changes

The Labour Code has been updated to bring Slovak law into line with EU law on maternity and parental leave and European works councils. This includes:

Maternity/parental leave

• requiring employers to allow employees to return to their old job and place of work after a period of maternity or parental leave and, where this is impossible, to assign them to another equivalent role
• requiring employers to ensure that their working conditions on return are no less favourable than those they enjoyed when they started maternity or parental leave and include all improvements that they would have received had they not taken maternity or parental leave
• extending the same rights to employees returning from service in a public office, work with labour union, training, extraordinary service, temporary sick leave or quarantine