Business Bulletin No. 1/2018

We would like to use this year’s first issue of Business Bulletin primarily to inform you about the amendment to the Act on Public Registers, which introduces the obligation to record data on the actual owners of legal entities as of 1 January 2018. The second piece of legislation which we inform you about is the amendment to the Civil Code, which reintroduces the pre-emptive right to real estate upon the transfer of a co-ownership share. As for the decision-making practice of courts, we have selected two rulings: the first deals with the question of attributing the knowledge of the company regarding certain facts, which are both known by the director and at the same time the authorized representative/signatory of such a company; the second concerns the transfer of obligations under labor law in the case of cleaning services. To conclude the issue, we share some practical advice: taxpayer declarations may now be submitted electronically.

Our law office Randl Partners changed its legal form

We believe that we will retain your patronage even after the change of legal form and look forward to successfully continuing our cooperation.

Forbes 2017 – Nataša Randlová among the most powerful women of Czech Republic

The november’s issue of the prestigious magazine Forbes CZ published The list of the Czech 100 Most Powerful Women. As well as in 2013 and 2015, Nataša Randlová belongs to the group of these personalities.It focuses not only on the manageresses, business owners, women in public sector, but also on the women in non-profit sector, culture, sport and so-called opinion leaders. Forbes makes this list every year to support these women and to inspire others.The Magazine evaluated the economic outturns, amount of money over which they have control and which they directly affect, their shares in firms, how many clients might be influenced by their decisions etc.Complete list can be found in the latest issue of the Forbes magazine.

HR News No. 7 / October 2017

We will focus on the changes that are coming into effect as of 1 October 2017, and which you can expect to need to work with next year when employing persons with health disabilities, or when taking advantage of alternate fulfillment.

HR News No. 6 / September 2017

In this month’s HR News, we’ll be discussing the specifics of long-term care contributions, an important new institute brought about by the amendment to the Act on Sickness Insurance.  Because the government already discussed increasing the minimum salary for 2018, in the second part of HR news, we will inform you about the increase to the minimum salary, and the lowest amounts of guaranteed minimum salary for individual work groups.

HR News No. 5 / August 2017

In the last issue of HR News, we informed you about the lifting of the ban imposed on employment agencies, which precluded them from temporarily assigning foreigners who need employment authorizations, employee cards, or blue cards. This development should at least partially alleviate the current situation, and thus comes as welcome news to many—however, in this connection, many of you may have also forgotten about the important restrictions implemented by Government Decree No. 62/2009 Coll.; we would thus like to use this opportunity to reacquaint you.

HR News No. 4 / July 2017

The entire July issue of HR News is dedicated to the amendment to the Act on Specific Health Services. The amendment will come into effect as of 1 November 2017.

HR News No. 3 / June 2017

The entire June edition of HR News is dedicated to the amendment of the Act on Employment, which was passed by the Senate and is now waiting only to be signed by the President and then be published in the Collection of Laws. In this issue, we also discuss the EU Data Protection Directive which comes into effect next fall.

HR News No. 2 / May 2017

In this year’s second issue of HR News, we will discuss the “EU” amendment of the Act on Employment and the Labour Code, so that you can get acquainted with the requirements of the new regulations regarding the hosting of posted employees.  In the second part of HR News, you will read about the case law of the Supreme Court concerning the penalties for the consumption of alcohol in the workplace.

The highest ranking in Chambers Europe 2017

For the seventh time in a row, the prestigious British ranking of European law firms, Chambers Europe, confirmed the position of the employment-law team of Randl Partners at the highest level of evaluation (Band 1).Furthermore, Nataša Randlová, as the leader of the employment-law team and co-founder of the law office, has maintained her prominent appraisal as “a personality with an exceptional reputation in their field” (Star Individual) for the sixth time in a row.

Business Bulletin No. 4/2017

In the last issue of the Business Bulletin, we have prepared brief a summary of the amendment to the Building Act, new Payments Act, amendment to the Anti-Money Laundering Act, amendment to the Trade Licensing Act and amendment to the Civil Procedure Code. In the case law section, we focus on a useful decision of the Supreme Court, which confirms that a business corporation cannot be represented jointly by a proxy holder and a member of its statutory body.

Business Bulletin No. 3/2017

In this year’s third issue of the Business Bulletin we will summarize the new Act on Compensation for Competition-related Harm and Amendment to the Act on the Protection of Competition. The purpose of this act is to make claiming damages easier for both natural persons and legal entities, which have suffered from the infringement of competition rules. We will also deal with the latest Amendment to the Act on the Register of Contracts which extends the list of contracts exempted from mandatory disclosure in the Register and the Act on the Czech Trade Inspection Authority which aim is in particular to extend the powers of the Czech Trade Inspection Authority during inspections. In the area of proposed legislation, we focused on new Act on the Personal Data Processing, which purpose is to implement the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) into Czech law. Regarding new rulings, we chose the Decision of the Constitutional Court regarding the damages caused to a participant of an awarding procedure by non-compliance of the contractor with the Public Procurement Act; and the decision of the Supreme Court regarding impossibility to use the promissory note as security of an employer’s claim against an employee.

Business Bulletin No. 2/2017

In this year’s second issue of the Business Bulletin we will summarize the important amendment to the Act on Public Procurement, the Decree on the Real Estate Cadastre and the new amendment to the Copyright Act. We will also deal with the so-called 2017 tax package, especially the changes to the Act on Income Taxes and Act on VAT. In the area of proposed legislation, we focused on the amendment to the Building Act, which should simplify the authorization procedure and which is only waiting for the President’s signature. Regarding new rulings, we chose the decision of the Supreme Court, which was the first published decision of the Supreme Court after the Constitutional Court issued the decision (I. CC 190/15) last September, which criticized the existing decision-making practice of the Supreme Court in cases concerning the concurrence of functions; and the decision of the Constitutional Court usable in practice concerning the definition of the actual damage to a vehicle after a traffic accident.

HR News No. 1 / January 2017

As is now almost traditional, our New Year’s edition of HR News will bring a practical summary of all kinds of possible changes that you need to be on the lookout for in your HR practice starting from 1 January 2017. You will find out, for example, about new figures concerning travel allowances, we will remind you of the increase in minimum salary (and of its implementations), or of the maximum level of employee salary deductions.

Business Bulletin No. 1/2017

In this year’s first edition of the Business Bulletin, we will bring you up to date with the most recent legislative developments and court rulings in the first quarter of 2017— especially the new Act on Insolvency, which introduces important changes across the entire wording of the Act. Concerning proposed legislation, we will inform you about the newly prepared change to the Act on Insolvency, which primarily concerns new debt discharge conditions, and an amendment to the Trade Licensing Act, which removes the obligations of entrepreneurs to report ID information of the members of statutory bodies. We also present you with a quick summary of a comprehensive change proposal to the Act on Experts, Expert Offices and Expert Institutions, the goal of which is to increase control over experts and to increase the requirements on their professionalism. Concerning rulings published in 2017, we chose a ruling of the Constitutional Court, which brings changes to the institute of VAT control statements. We would also like to bring your attention to the fact that apart from shortcomings in the actions of competitors, the Office for the Protection of Competition also looks into the internal documentation of associations. As a practical piece of information, we also put together a summary of developments in the area of personal data protection.

Law Firm of the Year in the Employment Law Category

Randl Partners, attorneys-at-law, once again received a top listing in the Law Firm of the Year ranking list in the category of leading law firms in the field of employment law in the Czech Republic. This year’s award is thus the fifth time that Randls has received an accolade in this field, the previous having been awarded in 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2014.The full list of the best-rated law firms in all fifteen professional and nine special categories can be viewed at  www.pravnickafirmaroku.cz.