✔️ TIPS FOR THS WEEK
#1 Changes to Labor Code go into effect
Effective from Oct. 1, 2023, significant changes are being introduced in the Czech Labor Code, impacting aspects of employment such as remote work, employment agreements, and terminations.
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Employees must establish written agreements with their employers for remote work by Nov. 1, 2023. In the coming weeks, companies must also adjust their systems to allow for vacations for contractors as well.
📰 WEEKEND NEWS RECAP
- Former Slovak PM Robert Fico's Smer-SD party decisively won the Slovak parliamentary election, and was congratulated by former Czech PM Andrej Babiš.
- The Czech Republic's national baseball team finished fifth at European championships, held this year in Czechia.
- Czech millennials are struggling to get mortgages as interest rates in the country remain high.
- Czech drivers are taking advantage of low fuel prices in Poland, which have been dropped by the country's ruling party ahead of upcoming elections.
- State-run Czech company ČEPS has acquired Net4Gas Holdings, which manages an extensive gas pipeline and station network in the Czech Republic.
- Research co-authored by a Czech scientist has found that the Covid-19 pandemic spurred global interest in gardening.
#2 Architecture festival begins in Prague
Until Thursday, architectural wonders both modern and forgotten await discovery during Architecture Day, the largest architectural festival in the Czech Republic. The festival offers over 450 free events across the country that include guided walks, cycling tours, access to spaces normally closed to the public, and much more.
#3 Designblok kicks off across Prague
The 25th annual edition of Designblok (Oct. 4–10) will present the latest in contemporary Czech design at three exceptional venues starting this week: the National Gallery Prague’s Trade Fair Palace, the gardens of Prague Castle, and the Museum of Decorative Arts. Numerous shops, studios, and showrooms throughout the Czech capital will also participate.
#4 Film festival selections showing throughout Czechia
Award-winning movies from festivals in Berlin, Venice, and Cannes will hit numerous cinemas in Prague (and across Czechia) during the Be2Can film fest (Oct. 4-11). This year's festival opens with Maïwenn's Jeanne du Barry, starring Johnny Depp as King Louis XV opposite the director in the titular role, which made a splash at Cannes in May.
#5 English-language production premieres on Prague stage
Pulitzer prize-nominated playwright Joe Sutton's The Third Army will premiere at Prague's Divadlo Na Prádle on Thursday, October 5. The English-language production from Prague Shakespeare Company will also be staged on Friday as well as next weekend. Read more about the play and its Czech roots here.