The Labour Office and its role in solving unemployment

Resumé This diploma thesis is aimed at the task of labour office solving unemployment issues. Labour offices are specialized administrative authorities which fall within the competence of Ministry of labour and social affairs. I have chosen this topic in consideration of the global economic crisis and the current problems of unemployment which reached the alarming 9,9 % at the end of March 2010. The first chapter pays attention to the historical development of labour offices in Czechoslovakia, more precisely in the Czech republic since the formation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 till nowadays. This chapter clearly shows how employment policy can be influenced by political establishment of a country and what impact it can have on the social standards of its inhabitants. The following chapter deals with the right to work and the right to be employed which is contained in Czech, European and international documents. The right to work and the right to be employed has an international basis which was followed by the Czech repulic and which inspired the Czech republic to form the general ground of the Czech legal regulation. The third chapter presents the determination of applicability of labour office and the competence confided to labour offices in accordance with Employment Act, No.435/2004 Coll. The labour office..