European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legal regulations provides information on regulations in the Member States of the European Union and Norway which are explicitly or implicitly linked to anticipating and managing change.
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Employers are obliged to provide health services to check the health ability of their employees to perform the assigned job and the threat to employees' health linked to the performance of tasks in a job. Particular attention is paid to hazardous jobs with high levels of risk.
After the termination of employment relations, employees who performed jobs with high levels of risk can ask the employer for preventive health checks in relation to the job performed by them. This service is optional and the employee decides whether to undergo the preventive health check. However, if employees concerned ask the employer for the health check, he/she has to provide this service.
During a crisis situation declared in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, employers are not obliged to provide these health services.
From 15th of September 2023 Slovak Government canceled crisis situation (related to Covid-19 pandemic), therefore employers are obliged to adhere to this legislation as it was before the pandemic. The employers have 90 days to ensure this obligation is in effect.
Jobs with high levels of risk are performed at workplaces where employees should be protected from impacts of health harming factors of working conditions (for example, radiation, heat or vibration) by organisational measures, technical means or personal protective means.
In covid pandemic, the employers were alleviated from certain regulations of 355/2001 c.c.. However, it should have not affected OSH. For example, Personal protection equipment(PPE) was mandatory without exception.
Eurofound (2015), Slovakia: Health monitoring of workers affected by restructuring, Restructuring legislation database, Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/legislationdb/health-monitoring-of-workers-affected-by-restructuring/slovakia
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