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May 2016

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Revolutionary verdict:Companies may monitor the private emails of their employees.he European Court of Human Rights delivered a ground-breaking verdict ruling that an employer maymonitor private correspondence of an employee on condition that the correspondence takes place duringworking hours and on the company’s device. Is it possible then to be dismissed for personal emails orchatting with a friend?

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg recently dealt with a case in which an employerordered his employee to communicate within his work duties via Yahoo Messenger service on a workingcomputer. However, the employee also used this service to send private messages without asking theemployer.

Later, the employer discovered the private use while he was verifying how the employee was performing hiswork. Consequently, the employer dismissed the employee. “According to the verdict, the employeeviolated the rules of the company. The employee also knew that the use of company means for privatepurposes was forbidden in the company and that the messages might be monitored. On top of this, heasserted that he didn’t use the service for private messages,” says Petr Glogar, PwC Legal attorney.

The complete article in Czech is available here.

Petr Glogar

Expert on labor law

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Jaroslav Srb

Nina ValešováNina graduated from the Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague. In 2015, she led a project ofEducation in countryside in company CIRCLE Education s.r.o. During her studies she completed aninternship at the Executory Office, where she focused on insolvency and real estate law. She speaks fluentEnglish and before joining PwC Legal she gained legal experience in two international law firms based inPrague.

Jaroslav also graduated from Faculty of Law of Charles University in Prague and studied at The University ofStrasbourg under the Erasmus program. At the same time, he completed an internship at the PermanentRepresentation of the Czech Republic to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. He gained legal relatedexperience in a Czech law firm and besides excellent Japanese he also speaks perfect English and French.

“Allowing the provision of consumer credits over the Internetpossible will on the providers’ side require a properlyconfigured system of electronic contracting so as to fulfil bythe law requiring such contracts in a written form. Otherwisethere is a threat of fines in the amount of up to CZK 20million.”

Rudolf Kožušník of PwC Legal during presentation within theRegulation of consumer credits symposium which tookplace on April 7 under the auspices of the Prague Legal Autumnand Czech Association of Creditors. Is the present legislativeregulation of the credit market able to meet its goals?

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PwC Legal ranked amongst themost desired Czech employers

Our law firm was ranked fifth in theTOP Czech employers list. A total of10,360 college students participated inthe ranking of their top 65 employers.

Lawyers of PwC Legal supportdisadvantaged young people

Fulfilling our corporate responsibilityrole, we help children and young peoplewho face disadvantages compared totheir peers. PwC Legal has thereforedecided to support the non-profitorganization Lata, which operates inPrague and Central Bohemia since1994.

In case you also want to help, pleasevisit www.lata.cz

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This February, hackers broke into the computer network of theCalifornia-based hospital Presbyterian Medical Center and paralyzedtheir entire computer system for more than a week. The hospital had topay a price of 17,000 dollars to unblock the system. It’s probably only amatter of time before cyber hacking directed against medical

facilities will arrive to the Czech Republic.

One of the possible solutions is the use of cloud computing. Quality cloud providers areequipped with such personnel and technological security, that most companies are unable toachieve at a similar level for economic reasons. Because such institutions store sensitivepersonal data it is necessary to consider such solutions carefully. Besides contractualguarantees in the agreement with the provider we recommend to pay equal attention to theselection of the actual cloud provider. Prior to concluding a contract, you should conductproper due diligence of the provider.

The complete article is available in the April issue of the professional bi-weekly Medical Tribune.

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Cloud computing in health care

21. Petr Glogar from Brno PwC Legal office appeared as a guest in the

broadcast of ČT24, where he spoke on surfing the Internet at work.2.From the right –PwC Legal attorneys Kateřina Surková, Bořivoj

Líbal and Michael Mullen with Dirk Stiller (Germany) and GillesSemadeni (France) at the launch party of PwC Global LegalNetwork Conference in Barcelona.

3.Colleagues exchanged legal regulations for microphones andenjoyed a karaoke evening in the spotlight.

4.PwC Legal team together with other colleagues from PwC CzechRepublic took off for skiing in Austria.

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Client visit: Tesla S P85D

Once again, we have visited one of our clients. Thistime it was Electric Park s.r.o. – the largest expert onTesla Motors vehicles in the Czech Republic.

This swift electric car has two electric motorsdelivering 350 kW at its rear axle and 165 kW at thefront axle. With its enormous torque of 930 Nm it isperfect for lightning acceleration lovers. It is able toaccelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in 3.3 seconds. Theirfleet also has other car brands – the lively and stylishRenault Zoe, a dynamic and yet quiet VW e-Golf, acompact Peugeot iOn or award-winning NissanLEAF. Rental prices per day start at less than CZK2,000, however you are going to love the ride somuch that one day really won’t be enough for you.

In March, there was a conference held on the themeof Sustainability for Production and Business– or necessary condition for competitivenessin conference rooms of PwC Legal. The speakers atthe conference included leading Czech and foreignproducers and suppliers, public sectorrepresentatives as well as experts and specialistsfrom PwC Czech Republic and PwC Legal. One of theconference’s outputs is that production of productswith the lowest environmental impact, which are alsoappealing to customers and at the same time enabletraders to generate positive economic results, isbecoming a growing trend.

PwC Legal organized a conference on sustainability for production1. Aleš Terš, Associate of PwC Legal2. Jan Teplý, Marketing & Sales Director, Madeta3. Martin Lupa, Government Affairs & CSR Manager, Tesco

Stores4. Marta Nováková, President of Czech Confederation of

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Senior associate RudolfKožušník spoke on a very hottopic of regulation ofconsumer credits during abroadcast of Studio 6 onCzech State Television.

much that one day really won’t be enough for you. The Tesla Limousine Service is also worthmentioning. This service will be used by organisers of the upcoming Global Summit on CorporateSustainability.

www.electricpark.cz

The complete report is available starting from the 53rd minute on the website

of Studio 6.

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