Slovakia: law for the extension of collective agreements adopted

The draft amendment for the law concerning collective bargaining was adopted by the Slovakian National Assembly. It meets the needs to extend collective agreements according to fairer criteria. Such an extension was already possible before the amendment, but only if the concerned employer agreed. This article was written by Premysl Marek, lawyer for the Peterka & Partner firm in Bratislava. (Ref. 080254)
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Easier extension. Now, the Ministry for Employment, Social
Affairs and Family can, if the contracting parties propose it, to extend the
application of a collective agreement to employers who are not members of
the employers’ organization which signed the collective agreement, but who exercise most of their business activities in the
sector concerned. If the extension is proposed by the employees’ association
which employs the most employees in the sector concerned or by the union
organization r

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