Labour Law in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
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| Year of publication | 2019 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | This chapter deals with the history and development of labour law in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Labour law was interfered with shortly after the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was established, as labour law was a branch of law that was heavily influenced in the era of German occupation; the most significant changes applied to so-called collective bargaining. In the previous period, it was built on three pillars: freedom of association, right to strike, and autonomy of trade unions during collective bargaining. Thus autonomy during collective bargaining was actually eliminated. The Protectorate law was based on creating a system of controlled work, in which the State limits autonomy of will of parties to labour relationships significantly. For instance, persons that were engaged mostly in agriculture could be hired for a different job only if they had a prior approval of district authority. Since 1941, Protectorate citizens of the age 18-50 that were able to work could be ordered to carry out certain urgent services of significant political or economic importance. That applied especially to services of protecting the land, ensuring sustenance, improvement of traffic conditions, dealing with state of emergency or nature disasters and others. |