Author SK - Zuzana Krajčová

Increased minimum wage for 2020 was set by the Regulation of the Slovak Government No. 324/2019 Coll. The minimum wage was increased by EUR 60 to EUR 120 per month, depending on the degree of work difficulty. An increase in the minimum wage in practice also means, for example, an increase in bonuses for night shifts or on-call duty.

The subsistence minimum is a limit that sets the minimum livelihood in Slovakia. If a natural person falls below this limit, a state of emergency occurs. The change in an amount of the subsistence minimum in Slovakia this year, occurred on Wednesday, July 1, 2020 and its amount increased by EUR 5.13. The amount of

Amendment of an act n. 311/2004 of Labour Code entered into force on January 1st, 2020.  Its purpose is to support sports activities of children and youth. The employer's role is to refund employee’s expenses in the form of voluntary allowances, which are connected to the regular sports activities of employee’s child. As a child

From 1 September 2019 a novelty being a part of anti-bureaucracy law and relating specifically to the provision focusing on reducing the red tape by the use of the public administration´s information systems (IS) assumes effect. In this case, the bodies of state power when fulfilling their official duties are liable and entitled to obtain and use data registered in the public administration´s IS and also to provide such data to one another in essential scope.