Selected Issues of Transport Sector Employees' Working Hours with Emphasis on Aviation Workers

This thesis "Selected Issues of Transport Sector Employees' Working Hours with Emphasis on Aviation Workers" provides comprehensive exposition of selected issues relating to working hours of the aviation workers in commercial air transport, meaning flight and cabin crew, while adding considerations aiming to contextualize the topic. This thesis deals with legislation regulating working hours and rest periods of mobile employees in transport sector on the level of European Union law, international public law as well as of the law of the Czech Republic. First chapter of this thesis provides an overview of history and development of the legislation regulating working hours and rest periods in the territory of modern Czech Republic. This overview consists of three subchapters focusing on the following periods: 1811-1918, 1918-1965 and 1965-2006. First part of this thesis strives to provide the background required to understand the legislation on working hours and rest periods in broader historical context. Second chapter of this thesis focuses on the most significant legislation regulating working hours and rest period of transport sector employees as well as on the flight time specification schemes, which contain binding rules of conduct of commercial air transport operators as employers relating to..