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Selected issues of status of a professional athlete
Pospíšil, Daniel ; Pichrt, Jan (advisor) ; Morávek, Jakub (referee)
v anglickém jazyce (abstract in English) This thesis discusses the very topical issue of the status of professional athletes. The answer to the question whether the exercise of a professional sporting activity falls within the definition of dependent work in accordance with the Labor Code is currently still unresolved. Although there are strong arguments in favor of the subordination of at least part of the legal relations in professional sports under the labor legislation, the current situation is exactly the opposite. The vast majority of athletes today carry out their activities as self-employed persons. In this respect, the practice in the Czech Republic differs from the majority of other, not only European, countries where athletes normally have the status of an employee and possess the corresponding rights. This practice was recently explicitly allowed by the Supreme Administrative Court, stating that despite all the similarities, such activity is so specific that it defies the notion of dependent work. Czech law does not currently include any regulation of this issue, whilst it is evident that the current wording of the Labor Code is in fact inapplicable to the specific relationships in professional sports. It is therefore no wonder that the Czech sport clubs take advantage of the option not...

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