Liability for damage regarding occupational accidents and illness

Ondřej Lachnit Liability for Damage Regarding Occupational Accidents and Illness The following thesis deals with the issue of liability for damage regarding occupational accidents and illness in the Czech Republic. At the present time, employer's liability conforms to the Labour Code from 2006, which builds on the preceding Labour Code from the year 1965. A rich judicature concerning occupational accidents and illness has been formed since the 1960s. In this thesis, I often quote from this judicature. The current Labour Code, however, only provisionally deals with this issue; an ensuing change is about to take place due to the passing of a new law concerning the workers' compensation insurance. This law is already valid, but has yet to become operative. The law will come into effect on January 1st, 2013. Whether the law will become operative is questionable as its legal effect depends on the political situation in the Czech Republic. Currently, the right-wing government does not favour the new law, since it would burden the state budget more than the current system. In the Czech Republic, the employer's liability for damage regarding occupational accidents is defined very broadly:..