This dissertation examines the total returns to the employment relationship from a variety of perspectives. In the first chapter, I examine different forms of training and study its influence on individual turnover. My second chapter examines the impact of mandatory volunteer/work experience in high school on the employment and wage decisions of youths. In my final chapter, I examine flexible work hours as a moderator in the relationship between workplace strategy and organizational performance. The first chapter highlights the importance of the type of training provided to the employee in order to avoid voluntary turnover. I compare the impact of institutional training compared to course training on voluntary turnover. Estimates indicate that employees who receive course training are more likely to leave the firm for another job, while employees who receive institutional training are more likely to stay with the firm. The results indicate that different types of training have differential impacts on the employee’s turnover decision. The second chapter utilizes a provincial policy reform that requires either working at a paid job or volunteering as a mandatory high school graduation requirement and examines its impact on employment outcomes. I propose that this reform causes a change in the perceptions of work by individuals which may lead them to sacrifice income for an altruistic purpose. In addition, the low quality of jobs found working or volunteering in high school may result in a distaste for work and hence provide motivation for enrolling in post-secondary education. The empirical results support this argument as the reform resulted in an increased likelihood of high school graduates to pursue post-secondary education, while those who entered the labour force had a lower probability of employment and lower wages. The final chapter examines the generalizeable conditions under which flexible work schedules are beneficial to firm performance. I find that flextime is not a best practice that is applicable across all firm environments. Instead, flextime only increases profitability when implemented within a workforce strategy focused on employees. Conversely, flextime when implemented with a cost-reduction strategy has detrimental effects on firm profits.

This dissertation examines the total returns to the employment relationship from a variety of perspectives. In the first chapter, I examine different forms of training and study its influence on individual turnover. My second chapter examines the impact of mandatory volunteer/work experience in high school on the employment and wage decisions of youths. In my final chapter, I examine flexible work hours as a moderator in the relationship between workplace strategy and organizational performance. The first chapter highlights the importance of the type of training provided to the employee in order to avoid voluntary turnover. I compare the impact of institutional training compared to course training on voluntary turnover. Estimates indicate that employees who receive course training are more likely to leave the firm for another job, while employees who receive institutional training are more likely to stay with the firm. The results indicate that different types of training have differential impacts on the employee’s turnover decision. The second chapter utilizes a provincial policy reform that requires either working at a paid job or volunteering as a mandatory high school graduation requirement and examines its impact on employment outcomes. I propose that this reform causes a change in the perceptions of work by individuals which may lead them to sacrifice income for an altruistic purpose. In addition, the low quality of jobs found working or volunteering in high school may result in a distaste for work and hence provide motivation for enrolling in post-secondary education. The empirical results support this argument as the reform resulted in an increased likelihood of high school graduates to pursue post-secondary education, while those who entered the labour force had a lower probability of employment and lower wages. The final chapter examines the generalizeable conditions under which flexible work schedules are beneficial to firm performance. I find that flextime is not a best practice that is applicable across all firm environments. Instead, flextime only increases profitability when implemented within a workforce strategy focused on employees. Conversely, flextime when implemented with a cost-reduction strategy has detrimental effects on firm profits.

The theme and objective of this thesis is to assess legislation regulating creation and termination of employment with regard to the concept of flexicurity. The thesis draws attention to some elements of this regulation, pointing out its flexibility on one hand and protection aspects on the other hand, and offering some possible solutions according to intended law. At the same time the flexicurity concept as such is explained, as well as legislation regulating creation and termination of employment. This thesis is divided into five chapters, of which the key ones are the second, fourth and fifth chapter. The specific nature of labour law, the subject of labour law, principles applied in this branch of law, and the relationship between labour law and civil law are dealt with in the first chapter. In the second chapter is explained the concept of flexicurity and its components, namely flexibility and security, further division of those, and also described the Danish labour market model. The crucial term of this paper, flexicurity, arose as a combination of terms flexibility and security, or freedom and protection. Flexicurity is a modern concept or strategy of the labour market, which counts on a balanced combination of elements of protection and flexibility, both within the framework of labour law,...

The theme of this thesis is a comparison of legal regulation in the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany with regard to manifestations of flexicurity in the formation, changes and termination of the employment relationship. The word flexicurity was formed by combining two opposing terms - flexibility (contractual freedom) and security (safety, protection, sureness). Flexicurity can be viewed from several different angles. It is mainly a concept or model of a labor market with regard to labor law and alternatively related social security law and employment policy. The issue of labor law flexibility and protection of employees is very topical, especially nowadays. Effort to find the optimal balance between flexibility and security can contribute to the solution for the weakening competitiveness of European states. This thesis is composed of an introduction, five chapters and further divided into sub- chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter of the thesis deals with the term flexicurity and the approach of the European Union and European states on this issue (including historical development). The second chapter provides the basic characteristics of labor law in the Czech Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany that is a necessary foundation for the next part of the thesis. Key...

My diploma thesis is dealing with the legal issue of formation and termination of employment in the terms of flexicurity, focusing on the individual expressions of flexibility and employee protection in these legal institutes. The issue of flexibility and employee protection in the scope of formation and termination of employment is often discussed on the national as well as European level. Discussion emerges mostly due to the different preferences when the employer could rather benefit from flexibility, while for the employee the employee protection could be more important. To understand the institute of employment easily, the first chapter of my thesis describes Labour law in general and its subject. It slowly follows with the second chapter which is trying to give an explanation of flexicurity concept as well as a description of individual expressions of flexibility and employee protection. To illustrate the up-to-date and still higher importance of this strategy, including the European level, trends and attempts to integrate the flexicurity model into Member States' legislation are analysed. The third and the fourth are the key chapters of my thesis. The individual expressions of flexibility and employee protection are discussed there. The case of termination of employment provides the greatest...

Name of the thesis: Liability for damage in employment relationships The aim of my thesis is to analyse different types of liability for damage in employment relationships caused by the employer as well as the employee. This topic is very important part of labour law and also very practical, because it concerns most people who become employer or employee. Liability for damage is the main type of liability relations in labour law and every employer and employee need to know their rights and obligations arising from liability relations. The thesis is composed of six chapters; each of them is subdivided into several sections. The first chapter briefly introduces the issue of employment relationships. Individual parts of this chapter deal with definitions of such relations, types and related Czech legislation. Chapter Two explains what liability is in general, what its types are and the second part of this chapter focuses on liability in labour law, its special characters and division. Chapter Three specifically focuses on the most important type of liability in labour law, which is liability for damage. Besides general explanation and types of liability for damage which is covered in Part One, Part Two and Part Three, fourth part of this chapter highlights significant issue connected with liability...

This thesis is focused on a contractual freedom in employment relations, especially upon formation, changes and termination of the employment relationship. The contractual freedom is the key principle of private law, therefore also of labor law, and the expression of the contractual freedom is the freedom of an individual in his choice whether to enter into an employment relationship, who to enter with, what content would the employment relationship have and when and how to terminate this relationship. The contractual freedom upon formation, changes and termination of an employment relationship is necessary to be limited due to protection, safety and certainty of employees and also in the public interest. One of the objectives of this thesis is to think about how should be this restriction of the contractual freedom limited. In this work there is also a description of a historical development of a regulatory autonomy of the will of the parties and a description of a statutory regulation of the formation, changes and termination of an employment relationship. Another objective of this thesis is to reflect on the impact of extensive recodification of private law, that occurred in recent years, on the formation, changes and termination of the employment relationship. This thesis consists of an introduction, 8...

Name of the thesis: Employee Liability for Property Damage and Harm To a Person The aim of this thesis is to analyze employee's liability for damage in a broader historical context, extending also to the theory of law, to distinguish the specifics of labour law liability from the civil law liability and to define the prerequisites for the emergence of different types of employee's liability for damages and to elaborate on them in detail, especially through scientific literature and case law. In the first chapter, I describe labour law in brief historical context relevant for the topic, with reference to key changes in the development of labour law legislation. In accordance with aforementioned, in chapter two I then focus on the theory of liability, namely liability for damage, and then in chapter three I analyze in detail the liability for damage as regulated in the Act No. 262/2006 Coll., Labour Code. Chapter four strives to outline the functions of liability for damage in employment relationships and defines the prevention of damage. Chapter five then enumerates the prerequisites for arising of the employee's liability for damage and also focuses on definition of related legal terms. Chapter six analyzes different types of employee's liability for damage: General liability, liability for...

Magister Legum - LLM / Good faith is an open ended concept which refers to fair and honest dealings. The function of this concept is to give expression to the community’s sense of what is fair, just and reasonable. The concept of good faith has and continues to acquire a meaning wider than mere honesty or the absence of subjective bad faith. It is an objective concept that includes other abstract values such as justice, reasonableness, fairness and equity. There is competition between the two underlying values or cornerstones of the law of contract, namely that of sanctity of contract (pacta sunt servanda) and fairness.

¡@In recent years, the industry environment has been affected by the globalization and the dramatic changes of industrial competition, thus the enterprises, considering cost, flexibility and speed, show a yearly rising employment rate of foreign workers in Taiwan and some of them even reach the top limit. In addition, they gradually stop employing full-time or long-term workers, but start to employ the outsourced and dispatched personnel. As a result, the traditional employment relationships are confronted with challenges. According to the survey issued by CHEER magazine in April, 2004, more than 12% enterprises possess 10~20% contract-based employees of their total staff, and in the future more than 35% enterprise will continue to enlarge the scale of contract-based employees. Hence, the long-term official employment relationship is no longer the only choice, the enterprises tend to use multiple and flexible employment modes. ¡@¡@From 2008 to now, after experienced the financial crisis, have the enterprises added the application of flexible manpower employment strategies, or examined and adjusted their current flexible employment strategies? Therefore, the study further explores the current situation of enterprises¡¦ application of flexible employment strategies. ¡@¡@This study hopes to utilize the interview to collect the enterprises¡¦ current situation of flexible manpower employment, application reasons and effectiveness, as well as the relevant management regulations and practical operations derived from the application of flexible manpower employment in the enterprises, so as to explore the influences of flexible manpower employment strategies on the enterprises. Finally, it can be served as references for the enterprises of different fields to utilize the flexible manpower employment and the government to draft relative policies and labor laws in the future. ¡@¡@From the interview data, the flexible manpower mainly takes charge of the peripheral work like administrative support and elementary manufacturing or service works. However, it is extraordinary that the enterprises related to credit cards of financial service sector often employ the dispatched manpower, or assign the core business to the atypical employees. ¡@¡@As for the reasons for applying flexible employment, taking cost into consideration, serving as bridge to employ the regular workers are the primary. The benefits of flexible employment strategies are mainly shown in the cost reduction in welfare, training and recruiting and the flexibility of personnel application. During the financial crisis of 2008 when the case company conducted the organizational adjustment and downsizing, it primarily controlled and downsized the dispatched manpower by means of non-renewal of contracts upon labor termination or early termination of contract. However, it didn¡¦t downsize all the dispatched personnel but reserved the excellent ones. In addition, the regular workers without an outstanding performance were also handled. Moreover, the issues faced by dispatching companies such as high labor turnover rate, hard to recruit, low personnel quality, and unable to recruit the excellent personnel are also the important subjects to be faced and solved for the enterprises.