Frequently asked questions
Here we have listed questions employers and employees frequently ask. You can search among the questions by theme.
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- We are concluding an agreement on construction work with a light entrepreneur, what information are we required to obtain?
- What should I do if the occupational safety and health manager bullies me?
- If maintenance requires detaching and reattaching a single panel containing crocidolite, do you need an asbestos removal license?
- Do you need an asbestos removal license for additional insulation when drilling façade material containing asbestos?
- Does an employee need asbestos removal training to dismantle an enclosure at a facility after it has been declared clean?
- Does a company need an asbestos removal license when it removes an asbestos-containing water pipe from the ground by cutting at the coupling?
- Do you need an asbestos removal license for small-scale maintenance on asbestos-containing bitumen sheet?
- When does the outdoor maintenance of structures painted with asbestos-containing paint constitute licensed asbestos removal work?
- What can you do in case of water damage where insulation is suspected to contain asbestos?
- Can the Division of Occupational Safety and Health of the Regional State Administrative Agency intervene in the carrying out of an asbestos survey and its contents?
- Do you always need to determine the type of asbestos before removal work, even if it is not possible without significant detriment, or can you state in the asbestos survey that the matter cannot be investigated and the demolition work must be performed as asbestos removal work?
- To determine the asbestos-containing materials in a bathroom, is it enough to take one sample during the asbestos survey by drilling at a random place through a tile seam, collecting the powder and analysing the powder?
- When determining the type of asbestos, is it enough that the analysis response from the laboratory indicates whether the substance is crocidolite or other asbestos, or should the type be specified further?
- Do you need to do an asbestos survey before doing moisture measurements?
- Do asbestos surveys done before Decree 798/2015 entered into force have to be redone?
- Can an old wall or ceiling panel containing asbestos be left in place and new structures constructed on top of them? Can the new structure be secured with a device or machine that may break the asbestos-containing material?
- How can vinyl tiles containing asbestos in stairways be removed?
- Can an asbestos-containing adhesive-mounted vinyl floor covering be removed with a similar method as asbestos vinyl tiles?
- Does roughing asbestos-containing vinyl tile count as asbestos removal work?
- How can you make through-holes and attach fixtures to an asbestos-containing structure?
- What are the permitted removal methods for removing a façade coating containing asbestos?
- Do you need to use a three-stage airlock when using the enclosure method?
- What method can you use to remove corrugated cardboard insulation containing asbestos?
- What to do in cases where an outsider needs to go to an enclosed space before the cleanliness sample analysis for the space arrives?
- When taking apart bathrooms during pipe renovation, can bathrooms over one another be combined into one compartment and what would that require?
- Can you combine compartments in different spaces into a single compartment?
- Is a slatted or slate door acceptable as an airlock door?
- With small-scale maintenance of asbestos-containing bitumen sheet, do you need to limit and mark the area that will be taken apart?
- What kind does the removal bag have to be and how are you supposed to attach it to the target?
- When can bag removal be used when removing pipe insulation?
- When changing a window, what do you do when it is possible that you have to break asbestos-containing materials over the course of the work?
- Can you reuse removed asbestos materials?
- Does an employer with an asbestos removal license have to submit the measurement data on the negative pressure monitoring of compartments to the builder or another party steering or supervising the construction project without a separate request?
- After asbestos work, can the cleanliness of a 200 m² open space be determined with a single air measurement?
- When can you remove the differential pressure instrument used with the enclosure method?
- How often do you have to do monitoring measurements on people doing removal outdoors?
- What is the procedure for maintaining asbestos removal equipment when they are used in small works?
- Does the authority require regularly calibrating air pumps used for measurements (e.g. every one year)?
- Do occupational safety and health inspectors carry out indoor air measurements or construction technical studies?
- Is the employer obliged to pay me maternity allowance and under what conditions?
- Do workplaces need to have an alarm system or security?
- I work for a temporary agency and have to work alone in locations I’m not familiar with. What can I do if I'm feeling unsafe?
- My superior is behaving inappropriately towards me. Things got worse when I asked the employer to intervene. Can the occupational safety and health authority conduct an occupational safety and health inspection without my name coming up? I’m afraid I’ll be fired if my manager finds out I’m contacting the authorities.
- My co-worker is being bullied at work. What should I do?
- Can a person under the age of 18 work with motorised lawn mowers?
- If I resign after a lay-off has lasted for 200 days, do I have the right to receive pay for the period of notice?
- If I resign while I am laid off, will I need to work my notice period?
- We are approaching the end of a fixed-term lay-off and there is still no work. What should we do?
- Are there any special rules about laying off shop stewards or occupational safety and health representatives?
- Can fixed-term lay-offs be interrupted temporarily?
- Can a secondary school pupil enter into an employment contract?
- Can my employment contract be terminated during the trial period without me being informed of the reasons?
- Do I work during the notice period?
- Must the notice period always be followed?
- How is the notice period calculated?
- Is a verbally made agreement a real employment contract?
- What should be taken into account when agreeing on a trial period at the beginning of the employment relationship?
- My job starts exactly at 8:00. Do I have the right to flexible working hours so that I could come to work at 9:00?
- My working hours end at 4 p.m. If I can get all my work done, can I already leave at 3:30 p.m.?
- Can the employer change the tasks agreed on in the employment contract by invoking their supervisory rights?
- Can a person on study leave be terminated?
- Can you receive pay on maternity leave?
- Can an apprentice be laid off?
- If, for example, there are two days of contact teaching every other week during the next 1.5 years and two months of on-the-job training, will the student apply for a study leave for the entire 1.5 year period or separately for each time period as needed?
- Can I apply for study leave, for such things as the completion of trade training organised by a retail company or studies at an open university?
- Can an entrepreneur, such as a light entrepreneur in the platform economy, take study leave with financial aid?
- Is the right to study leave “reset to zero" when the employee has already exercised the right to study leave for two years within a five year period?
- I want to change my place of employment during my study leave, how do I resign?
- Can I work for another employer during my study leave?
- Can my previous job description be changed after I return from study leave? Is the employer obligated to offer work that matches my new qualifications or work that matches previous qualifications?
- Do I have the right to take part in training organised by my employer during my study leave?
- I am pregnant and will give birth during my study leave. Is the employer obliged to pay me maternity allowance and under what conditions?
- What do I do if the employer does not provide my pay data to the party who grants an adult education allowance?
- What do I do if I feel that the grounds the employer gave for postposing my study leave are not real?
- How often can an employer postpone the start of a study leave?
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