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Mass dismissal
Spejchal, Petr ; Štefko, Martin (advisor) ; Kotous, Jan (referee)
title: Collective redundancies key words: labour law collective redundancies consultation This study focus on collective redundancies. In the first part is analysed legal regulation in Czechoslovakia in 30ies of the 20 century. Then it was considered as an easy and cheap solution for current issue of high unemployment and economic crisis with small impact on state budget. The analysis of legal regulation is based on archive sources and standard law interpretation methods. The legislation process is also discussed. Strong positon of the state is characteristic of first republic regulation. The public authority could even ban collective redundancy. In the second part the analysis is aimed at the development of European law regulation of collective redundancies. The context of its genesis is explained. The legislative process of all three Directives is described in detail. The study highlights the purpose of the law regulation. Afterwards the analysis focuses on interpretation of Directive 98/59/EC based on Court of Justice of the European Union case law. The basic definition of collective redundancy, all legal persons, and consultation procedure is examined gradually. The position of public authority within the consultation procedure is addressed. Finally critical review is made of all Directive...
Strategies of survival during the genocide in Rwanda 1994
Spejchal, Petr ; Horčička, Václav (referee) ; Pullmann, Michal (advisor)
The genocide in Rwanda was one of the most horrifying events of the 20th century. It happened in front of the UN troops, which did not manage to prevent the slaughter of almost 800 000 people, mostly Tutsi. Inspite of extensive research we still do not know how it happened. The problem is that if we are speaking about genocide we usually focus on the perpetrators while the victims are seen as passive actors. If we leave the notion of genocide outside the micro level of historical research, we can more clearly focus on strategies, which the people engaged in order to survive. Their strategies were rooted in their historical memory, which was profoundly affected by the colonial history of Rwanda and Burundi and the authoritarianism which came afterwards. Economic crisis and global geopolitical change at the beginning of the 90's pushed the Rwandan regime towards democratization. Ongoing civil war and the assassination of the president of Burundi made the situation very tense. The genocide started when an airplane carrying the president of Rwanda was shot down. In Kigali the killings were very fast and intense. Initially people got the information from the extremist radio RTLM, but their next steps towards survival were more dependent upon their personal relationships, which provided them the possibility to be...

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