Limits of home-office in perspective of the amendment to the Czech Labour Code

This paper reacts to the current issue of home-office in the Czech legislation. Currently, an amendment to the Labour Code is to be approved bringing substantial changes to this legal institute. The aim of this paper is to draw attention to those changes because this topic has been legally regulated only marginally. The necessity to adopt legal rules to make home-office function practically was confirmed during the "Covid" era, when this tool started to be used by employers for objective reasons. employers began to massively use this tool for objective reasons. Another significant reason for new regulation is an obligation to harmonize the Czech and EU legal regulation which is based on the Directive 2019/1158/EU on work-life balance for parents and carers and on the Directive 2019/1152/EU on transport and predictable working conditions in the EU. This obligation was already required to be fulfilled up to August 2022. It is necessary to consider whether this regulation would sufficiently respond to the practice needs and whether it makes the usage of this legal tool easier for labour-law relations. Of course, only practice will prove a correctness of such legal changes.