On June 1, 2019, Decree of the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic No. 143/2019 Coll. came into effect, by which, after more than 10 years, the Ministry has made a small adjustment to the...

On December 7, 2018, the National Council of the Slovak Republic (the Slovak parliament) approved an amendment to the Labor Code to include a new provision, Section 13(5), effective as of January 1, 2019. Under the new provision, employers must...

The new legislation in the area of ​​reporting wrongdoing (whistleblowing), Act No. 4/2019 Coll. on Protection of Whistleblowers (the “Act”), entered into force on March 1, 2019. Among other things, the Act regulates (a) the conditions for providing protection to...

The most recent amendment to the Copyright Act regulates several application issues from practice concerning relations between collective rights management organizations and users and clarifies several provisions from a legislative and technical point of view. The amendment primarily supplements the...

We provide an overview of some of the changes to Slovak legislation that took effect on January 1, 2019. Value added tax From January 1, 2019, the reduced VAT rate of 10% will also apply to accommodation services. There are...