Možnosti a hranice slovenskej pracovnoprávnej súdnej ochrany

The central theme of this scientific article is an attempt to identify the approach of individual judicial authorities to the protection of the weaker party, i.e., the employee, in a special type of court proceedings. The authors seek to answer the fundamental question of whether the adopted Civil Procedure Code, with its special type of court proceedings for individual labor disputes and specific principles designed to favor employees in the protection of their rights, has had the intended effect of redressing the existing factual inequality between employees and employers. Based on an analysis of the legal regulations and the content of court decisions, the authors conclude that the courts have gradually developed different approaches to the application of individual special protective mechanisms, to the extent that the differences between the classic course of court proceedings and court proceedings with protection for the weaker party are beginning to blur.