Selected Labour Law Aspects of the Problematic Matters of Working from Home

Selected Labour Law Aspects of the Problematic Matters of Working from Home Abstract This diploma thesis analyses the most problematic aspects related to the institute of working from home. The identified aspects are: the costs incurred by the employee when working from home, the determination of the employee's place of residence as the place of performance of dependent work, the area of occupational health and safety and accidents arising from the performance of work from home, complications related to working hours in connection with the performance of work in the home office regime, issues related to the control of the employee working from home, the issue of equal treatment of all employees of the employer and the area of data and sensitive information protection in connection with the performance of work from home. The author focuses in his diploma thesis only on work from home performed remotely using digital technologies (also known as home office), not on manual work performed at home (so called homeworking). The aim was to determine whether the current legislation is functional and completely sufficient or whether the Labour Code needs to be amended for the proper functioning of the institute of working from home. For this reason, the diploma thesis presents a description of the current legal..