Chapter Remote working in pandemic and its challenges for employees

Overview & Synopsis

In last three years, especially as an effect of COVID-19 pandemic, the remote work became commonly used solution, but implementation of this form of the work in many professions, with many workers at the same time with no previous preparations led to numerous problems, like necessity of providing access to equipment and Internet, need to reorganisation of working time and attempt to adaptation of tasks to a cyberspace. It created an occasion to abuses and misuses the uncompleted law regulations by some employers. It was aided by regulations of Labour Code norming the question of teleworking which was not enough for pandemic situation and regulations of so-called Anti-Crisis act which allowed the employers to implement the remote working without the consent of employees. Consequently, legislator devised the project of Labour Code amendment which aim was also to defining and implementing remote work to legal system in concordance with other labour law regulations. The aim of the study is an attempt to point main problems of employees in situation of remote work, analysis of teleworking and remote working regulations and evaluation of its utility as well as presentation regulations of Labours Code amendment and its role in improving the employees’ situation after pandemic.