On 30 July 2020, a comprehensive amendment of the Czech Labor Code entered into force, implementing experiences with the Code's application over recent years. Thus, inter alia, a new concept of paid leave is introduced (the leave being calculated per hours), job sharing is enabled, and employees are allowed to take extra leave for organizing summer camps and other like children events, having the right to one-weekly-wage compensation (which will be subsequently reimbursed from the public purse to the employer).
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A new Real Estate Agency Act is in force in the Czech Republic since march this year. The Act No. 39/2020 Coll. is the first comprehensive regulation of the realtors' profession on the territory of the Czech Republic; compulsory qualification of real estate agents is provided for. Currently, an amendment to the Act is under legislative consideration. The amendment should, in connection with the ongoing state of emergency (coronavirus), prolong the transitional period, in which the agents should meet the qualification requirements, from six to ten months (i.e. until 3 January 2021).
Czech Republic has new rules for court experts and translators (interpreters) in place. On 20 December 2019, the Court Translators and Interpreters Act has been published in the Czech Collection of Laws (No 354/2019 Coll.), pairing the earlier Experts, Expert Bureaus, and Expert Institutes Act (No 254/2019 Coll.). The statutes are going to replace the existing fragmentary regulations dating back to the 1960s – the professions of court experts and translators are newly organized and new complex rules on their activity and liability are being introduced. Both acts shall come into force on 1 January 2021.
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