Trade unions organizations in employment relations The thesis deals with trade union organization as the most important representative of employees in collective employment relations. The purpose of this thesis is to describe a task of trade union organization as a legal subject from the view of legal theory, as well as from the view of contemporary legal regulation which has recently been substantially changed due to the recodification of private law. These contemporary amendments change a status of trade union organization as a legal person. These amendments have been followed by many interpretative difficulties. The thesis further describes activities and rights of trade unions as a subject with regard to first, the last amendments in legislation and second, the current jurisprudence. The thesis is divided into five chapters: The first chapter is focused on a position of trade unions in collective labour law, their specificities according to legal theory, historical background of trade association, international and domestic legislation of the right to trade association, position of trade union organization as a legal subject and other aspects such as hierarchy among trade union organizations. The second chapter deals with traditional rights and obligations of trade unions in collective labour...

Title: NHL and crisis Objectives: The goal of this diploma thesis is to analyze crisis of the National Hockey League and to make the economic forecast of the league and chosen clubs. Other goals are to introduce the league, its game system and the way of leading. Then to make an analysis of each crisis which the NHL went through during its history and to identify their causes. Methods: A qualitative and quantitative research, concretely descriptive analysis and the linear regression, which was made by the Microsoft Excel programme and its function TREND, were used in this thesis. Descriptive analysis was used for introduction of the National Hockey League and for definition of the main terms about the topic. The Microsoft function TREND was used for the forecast of the NHL and NHL team's economic situation. Results: Result of this diploma thesis is a summary of the most important terms and facts about the National Hockey League. Also a summary of the NHL crisis and an identification of their reasons. The main reason is that the team owners have completely different interests than the players, which can result to the lockout. The lockouts harm the richest teams and help the poorer ones, sometimes it can even solve them from bankruptcy. The biggest problem has been the high level of player's salary....

Diese Arbeit ist als Übersicht der Wege der Lösungen der arbeitsrechtlichen Beziehungen mit dem Fokus überwiegend auf die kollektiven arbeitsrechtlichen Streitigkeiten konzipiert. Die Arbeit teilt sich auf drei Hauptabschnitte: die tschechische Gesetzgebung, die deutsche Gesetzgebung und dann ihren Vergleich. Ein unbeträchtlicher Teil der Arbeit verfolgt den Vergleich der Gerichtsbarkeit in Arbeitssachen, wo die tschechische Agenda im Rahmen der allgemeinen Gerichte gelöst wird und die deutsche das Institut der Arbeitsgerichte benützt. Das Kapitel des Vergleichs beginnt mit einer tabellarischen Übersicht des Verfahrens. Erwähnt ist auch die Effektivität beider rechtlichen Ausgestaltungen. Unwesentlich sind die alternativen Wege der Lösung arbeitsrechtlicher Streitigkeiten erwähnt, und zwar mit dem Vergleich der Schlichtung und der Mediation. Das Hauptthema sind die aus den kollektiven arbeitsrechtlichen Beziehungen entstandenen Streitigkeiten, insbesondere aus den kollektiven Verhandlungen in der Tschechischen Republik und aus den Tarifverhandlungen in Deutschland im Rahmen der Abschließungen der kollektiven (und in Deutschland der Tarif-) Verträge. Der wichtige Ausdruck dieser Beziehungen ist unter anderem die spezifische Weise der Durchsetzung der kollektiven Interessen, und zwar mithilfe der...

This thesis is dedicated to legal institute of plea bargaining which has been adopted to Czech criminal procedure law on September 1, 2012. The plea bargaining law in the Czech Republic is highly influenced by plea bargaining practise used in different forms in various common law jurisdictions. The thesis is divided into three basic chapters. First chapter of this thesis describes overall background and reasons for adoption of plea bargaining into Czech law. In this chapter the author presents and analyses reasons and desired results the Czech legislature pursues by adoption of plea bargaining and its usage in practise. Second chapter provides a critical view of relation of plea bargaining with the rest of Czech criminal procedure regulation, especially an interaction of plea bargaining with fundamental principles of criminal procedure. Third chapter focuses on whole procedure related to plea bargaining as regulated by current law. This chapter describes and analyses positions of all parties to the process concerned, plea bargaining negotiation process itself and its legal limits. Furthermore it depicts and examines the process of court hearing and position and role of the court within it. The third chapter also concerns several legal measures laid down in order to secure compliance of the plea...

VEJSADA, Daniel. Collective bargaining. Praha, 2012. Diplomová práce. Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Právnická fakulta. Vedoucí práce doc., JUDr. Jan Pichrt, Ph.D. The aim of the thesis is mainly to highlight the level of coverage by collective agreements in the CR and to analyze the impact of collective bargaining for employees and employers using available statistical data. By the evaluation of the processes of collective bargaining and focusing on its individual institutes I am looking for the perfect method of handling the collective bargaining so as to be beneficial for both parties involved, and try to present the method how the modern trade union should work in its interaction with the employer, different from the common practice of today's trade unions. I also point out the need for proper analysis of the situation prior to collective bargaining and the method of selecting strategy for negotiations. I chose the topic based on my personal experience with the representation of employees and involvement in the collective bargaining and also on the experience of participation in the EWC.

The goal of this thesis is to develop a DSGE model that accounts for the key business cycle properties of the Czech labor market. We used standard New Keynesian framework for monetary policy analysis and incorporated an elaborated labor market setup with equi- librium wage derived via an alternating offer bargaining protocol originally proposed by Rubinstein (1982) and follow the work of Christiano, Eichenbaum and Trabandt (2013) in the following steps. Firstly, we calibrated the closed economy model according to values suited for the Czech economy and found that the model can not only account for higher volatility of the real wage and unemployment, but can also explain the contemporaneous rise of both wages and employment after an expansionary shock in the economy, so called Shimer puzzle (Shimer, 2005a). Secondly, we demonstrated that the alternating offer bar- gaining sharing rule outperforms the Nash sharing rule under assumption of using the hiring costs in our framework (more so while using search costs) and therefore is better suited for use in larger scale models. Thirdly, we concluded that after estimating the labor market parameters using the Czech data, our model disproved the relatively low values linked to the probabilities of unsuccessful bargaining and job destruction. JEL...

D.Com. (Industrial Psychology) / The primary purpose of this study was to determine various perceptions of a group of Black industrial workers regarding group conflict which arises between management and the workers. A second objective was to establish whether any differences exist between ,the perceptions of this group and those of a similar White group. "Conflict" as a phenomenon was introduced and 'collective bargaining' as a means of resolving labour-management conflict was reviewed. This required examining the history of negotiation and its development from biblical times, the Black man's traditional method of negotiation, and the Black workers' involvement in, the trade union movement in South Africa to-day. A study of the relevant literature revealed various approaches to industrial relations, and frames of reference, and it became clear that a person's approach would largely he determined by the frame of reference adopted. The most popular frame of reference in Western industrialized countries appears to he the pluralist perspective which views conflict as' a natural outcome of human interaction. As such it is found in all labour-management interaction t and has been institutionalized through the process of collective bargaining. The sample used in the study consisted of 1124 Black and 201 White industrial workers employed in East London. The instrument used was a questionnaire designed to measure the attitudes of the two groups on various aspects of collective bargaining...

We present an in-depth analysis of the music industry and use our findings to judge the practical assumptions and design of an original theoretical model. The model is in three stages, where, in a Hotelling-type framework, the last agents to act are consumers who choose between copying, purchasing, or staying out of the market for music. Prior to the last stage, the record label chooses its profit maximizing price and, in the first stage, we incorporate the artist-label bargaining agreement into a theoretical framework using the Nash cooperative bargaining solution. The current structure of the music industry is a combination of the oligopoly and monopolistic competition models, consisting of five major labels and many independents. Despite major labels' advantage in large-scale distribution, we argue that digital downloading has the potential to radically alter the current industry structure, and that artists would be unable to sell their music in such an environment without enforceable copyrights. Our model assumes that the most important determinants of CD and copy demand are consumers' tastes and transaction costs of copying, CD prices, and the substitutability between CDs and copies. We hypothesize that Internet file-sharing has been undertaken by both consumers who were previously not in the market, and by those who decided to copy rather than buy. In regard to firm strategy, the model suggests that labels could increase the sales of CDs by trying to increase consumers' taste for music, perhaps by reducing the price of CDs. Our model also predicts a positive relationship between artists' optimal share of album sales and their bargaining power, as well as a negative relationship between artists' optimal share and their risk aversion. Since lowering the reliance on labels for distribution would increase artists' bargaining power, our model predicts that artists' share of profits should increase as legitimate digital distribution gains prominence. We also provide empirical testing of our hypothesis that some music file-sharing has been done by consumers frequently not in the market. After examining consumers' expenditures and aggregate industry sales, we are unable to reject our hypothesis

In 2010 the municipal elections took place in the Czech Republic. In this theses there are applied some of the knowledge from the area of the public choice theory and the game theory to the results of the pre-election surveys and results of the elections. Firstly the methods for allocating seats are applied on data from the surveys and election results. The power indices are calculated for all the proportion of allocation of mandates in order to qualify the bargaining power. The results of elections are analysed and compared with two previous periods and with the pre-election surveys. The bargaining power is confronted according to the indices with the results of post-elections negotiations.

This dissertation is presented within the doctoral study on the Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Law. The presented dissertation addresses the issue of the status and activity of trade unions in labour relations. The dissertation deals with the conditions for legal foundation and creation of trade unions, the conditions for their operation at an employer, their organisational structure, the conditions for the dissolution and disbanding of trade unions. The dissertation is also devoted on the questions of plurality of trade unions, as well as the questions of jurisdiction and powers of trade unions in labour relations, focusing on the right of collective bargaining and the right to conclude collective agreements. The dissertation also deals with the collective labour disputes and the various methods of their resolving, focusing on the right to strike as an extreme means for resolving a collective dispute. The presented dissertation also deals with certain issues related to the status of members of trade union bodies (union officials), with the status of labour organisations in the period from the founding of an independent Czechoslovak state in 1918 up until 1989 and an outline of developments in the trade union movement after 1989 and also looks into the right to strike in selected countries of the...