Opis: | The employment relationship is normally a permanent relationship between the employee and the employer; it is a superior-subordinate work relationship, where employee is subordinated to the working process and to the instructions given by the employer. At the same time it is a voluntary relationship, in which the employee is particularly protected, due to its subordinate position. Likewise, the employee's social position and the status of his family depend on the most important source of income - that is from payment for work. In the case of labour dispute, legal protection of employee's rights and obligations arising from the employment relationship must be effectively ensured to the employee even in the process of settling the dispute before the Labour Court.
As well as other disputes, the number of labour disputes needs to be reduced; it is important to prevent them or to avoid them. However, that is often not possible; therefore it is necessary to use all means to settle the dispute as soon as possible. It is in the interest of both, the employee and the employer that labour disputes get settled in the fastest way possible - in the event of delaying and employee's success the employer will have to pay a wage compensation for the entire time the employee has not worked. Due to the large stream of new cases and the number of pending cases from previous years, the time of settling labour disputes (individual and collective labour disputes) in the Higher Labour and Social Court in Ljubljana in 2007 amounted to 68.7% of all cases over 6 months and in 2006 this percentage was even higher (72.2%). However, the duration of the procedure is not influenced only by the court, but also by clients, namely by taking the principle of conscientiousness and honesty into an account and by not abusing their rights in the process.
The purpose of diploma work is to present the most common way of settling individual labour disputes according to our legislation in detail - that is in a judicial manner. Before this happens, it is necessary to know the fundamental institutes and concepts concerning the individual labour dispute - the parties, the authorities etc., which are also going to be preliminary discussed. |
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