Flexicurity in the Czech Labor Law

The article focuses on the classical dilemma labor law faces in regards to oscillating between flexible regulations for business manifested in freedom of contract and employee protection subject to the non-transgressional guarantee of the employee’s working conditions and high stability of employment. It also reacts to the, modern trend, approach to labor law, i.e. Flexicurity, and it outlines its operation with respect to the labor law of the Czech Republic, while ensuing from the traditional definition of this legal branch here and from the basic principles on the basis of which it functions. It at the same time attempts to define the term Flexicurity and its content of seemingly contradictory intents regarding flexibility of work and employee protection there under. Furthermore, the article addresses in detail the individual expressions and presentation of Flexicurity under the individual institutes of labor law. The article concludes by attempting to give topics de lege ferenda and it shows which direction labor law legislation should take in its attempt to find a balance between flexibility of work and employee protection.