Dohody o pracích konaných mimo pracovní poměr 2024/2025 – group of authors (2024)

"Contract workers" or also "freelancers." This is how employees who work for an employer not under an employment relationship but based on a work agreement or a contract for work are often referred to in practice. The legal regulation of agreements is significantly more flexible compared to the regulation of employment relationships and features several specifics that need to be remembered in practice. Significant changes to agreements after the amendment to the Labor Code. This also applies after the so-called transposition amendment to the Labor Code, which, starting from October 1, 2023, and January 1, 2024, has erased many differences between employment relationships and the aforementioned agreements. Even "contract workers" are entitled, for example, to vacation, to time off during work obstacles, or to a bonus for working on Saturdays and Sundays. Employers must, with exceptions, schedule working hours in writing in advance and keep a record of them. They must also not forget about the limitations on the maximum length of shifts or uninterrupted breaks. Beware of new obligations regarding agreements! Moreover, employing under a contract for work is more complicated than before. Effective from July 1, 2024, employers will have a new notification obligation towards the territorial administration of social security. From January 1, 2025, a completely new...