The Slovenian labour market has faced several changes within the last years. The legislator has recognised it and consequently amended the Employment Relationship Act in 2013. Right now the social partners are discussing some new changes in order to combat precarious work. Although the outcome is unknown so far, it has to be stressed that some changes are urgent in order to preserve the employment contract and workers’ rights. The pressure of flexibility has had great effect in Slovenia as more and more work is performed as precarious work (mostly based on civil contracts and false self-employment), working time is being prolonged, overtime work sometimes not paid and cancellation made easier. The labour courts are facing lots of cases regarding disguised self-employment, overtime work, unlawful cancellation and similar, but even in more cases workers do not use the right of judicial protection. Thus the role of labour inspectorate has become crucial with regard to finding violations and penalizing employers with the preventive goal to omit bad practices. Also the labour courts are faced with lots of cases regarding disguised self-employment, overtime work, unlawful cancellation and similar.13

Darja Senčur Peček

Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, Slovenia.

Valentina Franca

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, Slovenia.