Abstract

This article provides legal assessment of period of employment as one of the prerequisites that need to be fulfilled in order to achieve the status of the employee entitled to complimentary shares basing on the Commercialization and Privatization Act. The issue arouses a number of practical doubts that were not resolved by the amendment of 19 December 2008. When analysing this issue, the impact of prerequisites which need to be fulfilled in order to achieve the entitled employee status on the legal nature of the complimentary shares structure should also be considered.