Zakon o radu

The process of adopting the new Labour Act began in 2008, and the proposals for the Act were submitted to the Croatian Parliament several times. The adoption of the new Labour Act was accompanied by a broad public debate, especially among social partners, which ultimately resulted in some compromise solutions. The new Labour Act was adopted at the 15th session of the Croatian Parliament held on 4 December 2009, and was published in the Official Gazette, No. 149/09 of 15 December 2009. The Act entered into force on 1 January 2010, so we believe that some of you have already had the opportunity to apply the new legal provisions in practice. The new Labour Act also contains new nomotechnical solutions that make the legal text a more logical whole. The previous legal text has undergone significant changes in content. An important novelty is the limitation of concluding one or more consecutive fixed-term employment contracts for an uninterrupted period of no longer than three years, regardless of the type of work. The new provisions also contain parts of the Labor Law that refer to working hours and vacations of workers. The changes to the legal text related to the minimum duration of annual leave are probably the most commented on by the public, which represents only part of the changes to the legal text related to annual leave. With the new provisions of the Labor Act, for the first time, a whole range of entities has been enabled to be exempted from the legal provisions on working hours and breaks of workers, if they have agreed with the employer to be independent in determining them. In the part of the legal text that refers to the delivery of decisions on rights and obligations from the employment relationship, important novelties have been implemented.