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Legal relations between professional athletes and sports clubs in team sports
Růžička, Hynek ; Kohout, David (advisor) ; Beran, Karel (referee)
Legal relations between professional athletes and sports clubs in team sports Abstract The presented rigorosum thesis focuses on the legal relations between professional athletes and sports clubs in team sports. The thesis investigates professional sports contracts concluded between professional athletes and highest-level sports clubs in the Czech Republic and abroad across various fields of collective sports, in particular, contracts in ice hockey, football, basketball and cycling. The presented thesis compares domestic contracts with international professional sports contracts concluded under the most prestigious sports competitions in the USA and contracts from the Finnish top ice hockey league. The legal status of professional athletes in the Czech Republic as subjects of legal relations is examined in detail before the professional sports contracts are assessed. Consecutively, the admissibility of particular contractual arrangements under specific legal regulations is evaluated. In particular, the legal status of professional athletes is analysed in the light of the case law of the supreme courts of the Czech Republic. Moreover, the CJEU case law and its long-standing decision-making practice in this area are considered. The interpretation includes an assessment of national, European and international...
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The principle of equal pay for men and women workers for equal work in professional sport
Linhartová, Denisa ; Exner, Jan (advisor) ; Kunertová, Tereza (referee)
The principle of equal pay for men and women workers for equal work in professional sport This thesis is based on the hypothesis that given the available data on the different rewards of professional athletes and the fact that these rewards are not regulated or monitored in any way, it is likely that there is discrimination in pay in the field of professional sport. The aim of this thesis is therefore to assess whether this hypothesis is correct and whether any rules of remuneration in sport are in fact discriminatory in the context of European law. In order to verify the hypothesis, the thesis first deals with the legal regulation of the principle of equal pay and the question of the application of EU law to sports activities. In that context, it also deals with the question of the legal position of professional athletes as workers and service providers and examines whether the principle of equal pay is applicable to the nature of their sport activity as an exercise of work. Based on available studies, the thesis outlines the situation of remuneration across various sports and with the help of selected examples of sports such as football, basketball and tennis, also points out the causes of different rewards and other aspects of the issue, such as the lack of women in leadership positions, the...
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