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One of our employees has an employment contract specifying that her place of work performance is at our two facilities. However, we now want her to work from only one of these facilities and we want to prevent her from freely choosing which of the two facilities she works from. We have informed the employee that it is no longer possible for her to work from the second facility and have requested that, from a certain date, she only works from the address of the first facility. The employee is objecting, claiming that this is a change to her employment contract, which can only be done by a written amendment.

My wife is an entrepreneur, and she holds multiple shares in various companies. Since she owned these shares before our marriage, I assume they are not part of our joint ownership of spouses (similar to community property under common law and referred to as BSM in Slovak law). Only the income generated from these shares during our marriage, such as dividends, might be considered part of our joint ownership of spouses. One of my wife’s…

Our company provides services in a very specific area of information technology combined with financial services. At present, there is a shortage of qualified workforce in this field in the labour market. We are negotiating the provision of such services with a large company, which is currently receiving these services from another company. This other company currently employs most of the qualified staff for this specific area available in the labour market. However, the current service provider is ceasing…

We are a securities trader operating in Slovakia under the Single European Passport. We aim to standardise our complaint handling policy to be consistent across all our branches operating within the European Union. Does the requirement that a customer’s complaint against the conduct of a securities trader must be resolved within 30 days of receipt apply in Slovakia as well? Is it possible to extend this complaint handling period? If so, in what cases and to what extent? Do we need the customer’s consent to extend the complaint handling period? And can…

There is a trade union in our company. Recently, the organisation of our work has changed significantly, and a large portion of our employees and managers, including trade union representatives, work remotely. Most of our meetings take place online through Zoom or MS Teams. We would also like to hold meetings with trade union representatives this way. Our question is whether we can consult termination notices in accordance with Section 74 of the Slovak Labor Code online. We also want to know if we are obliged to present the actual text of the termination notice to the trade…

We are an international investment company with a branch in Slovakia authorized to provide certain investment services. We have a similar branch in the Czech Republic where we offer the so called “long-term investment product (DIP)” to our clients. We plan to introduce a similar version of this product in Slovakia. We know that Slovakia has also implemented a tax-advantaged long-term investment savings (DIS) plan. We assume that since we can offer DIP in the Czech Republic, we can offer DIS in Slovakia under…

An employee asked us to send his salary to a bank account held in a Czech bank. While this is an account in euros, it is not an account held by a Slovak bank or a Slovak branch of a foreign bank. We responded to the employee that although we would like to accommodate his request, we cannot comply as it contradicts the provision of section 130 subsection 8 of the Labor Code. This provision explicitly states that an employer is obliged to transfer wages to an account specified by the employee in a bank or a branch of a foreign bank in Slovakia. The employee claims that our view is incorrect…

We are an American company operating in the air transport sector. We have signed a lease agreement that allows us to operate an aircraft with a Slovak air carrier. The lease agreement includes a provision where, with our consent, the Slovak operator may remove the engines from the leased aircraft and install them in an aircraft owned by a third party. However, the operator must contractually ensure, even with our consent, that our ownership rights to the removed engines are preserved. This means…

I am a student and I have entered into an agreement for student part-time work for one year. The agreement states that in the event of termination by the student, the notice period is one month from the first day of the calendar month following the receipt of the notice. I have had agreements for student part-time work before, but I have never come across such a notice period. In my three previous contracts, either nothing was stated about the notice period, or it was 15 days with the period starting from the delivery of the notice. I noticed this when…