Protection against discrimination in employment relations

1 Protection against discrimination in employment relations Abstract The thesis discusses legal instruments of protection against discrimination in labor relations which are applied in accordance with the current legislation of the Czech Republic. Using the perspective of the discriminated employee, the thesis distinguishes between preventive and reparatory instruments. However, the thesis indicates that the boundary between these two basic categories is often blurred. In the introductory chapters, the thesis attempts to identify and define the features of discriminatory behavior, which, according to the theory of law, lies within the domain of private and public law. The thesis points to the intertwining of public and private law as a typical feature of labor law. The related second chapter reviews the parallel existence of the public interest in protection against discrimination in employment relationships and the private interest - or individual claims - of discriminated employees. However, exercising the public interest on the one hand, and exercising personal, legitimate interests of employees on the other cannot be understood as antagonism. The third chapter lists the instruments of protection against discrimination, divided into preventive and reparatory instruments, and mentions the subjects and..