Rights and Entitlements of Child Care Givers in Autonomous Sources of Employment Law. The Employer’s Fad or the Labor Market Requirement?

Abstract

The Chapter concerns the rights and entitlements granted to parents by entities employing them in times of gig economy, namely in a completely new model of flexible employment relations of the post-industrial era. The current job market means often uncertainty and risky employment. Employers have more and more problems not only with finding workers but also with keeping competent employees at work. In this context, much is currently being discussed about the employment model or the meaning of the employee and employer definitions. In practice much less attention is devoted to the extremely important sphere of human life, which is parenting and thus granting the parental rights and entitlements, and particularly whether it is justified to differentiate them because of the legal basis of employment relation.

The text of the Article has been published as part of the project “The principle of satisfying the living and social needs of the employee in the company’s sources of law with respect to parenthood”, financed by the National Science Center (2017/25/B/HS5/00940).