Maturity of pecuniary obligations and penalty interest in civil and labour law

This article is dedicated to the problem of maturity of pecuniary obligations and of penalty interest as a mechanism afflicting the debtor, who didn’t pay to his creditor duly and in time, in civil and labour law in the Czech Republic.
This article deals also with the place of fulfilment of civil and labour pecuniary obligations, the commencement and the termination of debtor’s delay, the commencement and the termination of debtor’s duty to pay to the creditor the penalty interest and further with the form of determination of the amount of penalty interest in these relationships.
This article is based on actual legal regulation to the 1st April 2012 and on legal regulation included in the Act No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code, as amended, coming into force on the 1st January 2014, on established judicature and on opinions of various experts.