Among the legal amendments taking effect as of the commencement of this year, there are some changes that may affect the parties in the course of real property sale and lease.
As shown by experience, several cases occur, due to the economic crisis, when either party has to resort to changing some provisions of a lease agreement.
Labour law changes with effect from January regarding paid leave have implications on two major fields: new rules apply for vacation entitlement due to age and there is a new option allowing employers and employees to agree on scheduling not more than one-third of paid leave in the following year until 31 December.
It is an increasingly frequent requirement of companies to move their seats to another European member state
Hungarian laws allow comparative advertising however, strict regulations should be complied with in order that the comparative advertising be actually deemed legal.
Many people believe that by placing an order of the goods selected on the web shop’s homepage means, the customer accepts the offer and so the agreement is made.
From January, communication by electronic means with courts in civil proceedings has become possible; the introduction of the option to file submissions by electronic means in the course of civil proceedings is clearly one of the most significant innovations of the reorganisation the Hungarian judicial system.
In the legal section of the www.origo.hu website, Dr. Mónika Kapetz, one of the attorneys of our law firm made a statement about the new provisions on duty from January.
Do new provisions on calculating absentee pay taking effect from 1 January adversely affect employees?
According to the expert of Kovács Réti Szegheő Attorneys at Law, the fact that in the new Labour Code the provisions on the protection of pregnant women no longer qualify as objective prohibition of termination as per the former labour laws, it would appear that the new regulation renders this group of employees in a disadvantageous situation.
