The law firm MADEJ & PARTNERS offers standard legal counselling in labour-related law to employers in drafting documents related to opening, changing or terminating employment relation or work agreements performed outside regular employment relation.

We assist employers to address individual work relations, to draft internal company documents, work, organisation and operation rules and other internal documents. We also offer counselling related to collective bargaining, drafting and the negotiation of collective agreement, collective litigations and in proceedings following the collective bargaining law.

The key objective for our assistance in the field of labour law is to ensure that the client’s processes and documents obey laws. We try to eliminate the potential risk of litigations with employees and, at the same time to limit reasons for sanctions to be imposed in case of an audit/check performed by state authorities.

We represent employees and offer legal counselling to them when they start, change or terminate their work relation. We enforce claims of employees in court litigations, mainly due to invalid work contract termination (invalid notice or immediate termination of work relation), or in case of occupational injuries as well as in many other cases.

We assist foreigners within the whole process of being hired for employment in Slovakia up to starting in a new job. There are many legal duties to be met by the employer who wants to employ a foreigner from non-EU countries. The vacancy needs to be reported electronically via www.sluzbyzamestnanosti-gov.sk portal by the employer at least 20 workdays before the temporary residence application for a foreigner is filed. If the vacancy remains available and at the same time, the respective Labour Office would not reject the vacancy for a foreigner, the latter may then file temporary residence application in Slovakia for the purpose of employment. “Promise to employ a citizen from a third country” issued by the future employer is a precondition for filing a temporary residence application. The employer may conclude the employment contract with the foreigner only after he/she was granted a temporary residence permit in Slovakia for the purpose of employment. It is advisable to provide legal assistance both to the future employer and the potential employee in parallel with the aim to ensure the required quality of necessary documents that would facilitate smooth and seamless residence proceedings.

Legal assistance to employer or employees belongs to the most often provided services in labour-related field of law, in drafting:

  • Work/employment contract
  • Agreement on changes in work/employment contract
  • Material responsibility agreement
  • Income/salary deductions agreement
  • Work/employment termination agreement
  • Temporary posting agreement
  • Contract for work
  • Holiday work agreement for students
  • Job description agreement
  • Work/employment termination agreement
  • Work/employment termination notice
  • Immediate work/employment termination notice
  • Employer´s decision about organisational changes
  • Work rules
  • Collective agreement
  • Action for the invalidity of labour relation termination and lost wage compensation
  • Promise to employ a foreigner
  • Reporting a vacancy for a foreigner to be employed
  • Legal assistance to a third-country foreigner in filing an application for temporary residence for the purpose of employment