BETWEEN WORK AND EMPLOYMENT. SOME CONCEPTUAL COMMENTS

Abstract

The study presents the understanding of the concept of work and the concept of employment with which we deal in legislation, jurisprudence, science and didactics of labour law. The relationship between these basic categories of concepts is particularly intricate and the subject of serious controversy. The category of work is the most important and superior concept in relation to employment. Historical, axiological, technical-legislative and practical reasons speak for this. The broad understanding of work includes not only labour relations but also other relations related to it., i.e. those that make up the subject of labour law, including so-called non-employee employment relationship (civil, administrative, constitutionaland penal type). In choosing between work and employment, priority should be given to work. This leads to the conclusion that the concept an employment relationship should be understood as broadly as possible. This is achieved by limiting the importance of employee subordination in definition of an employment relationship. This, in turn, leads to a tightening of scope of the concept of a non-employee employment relationship of the civil law type (from the mandate contract, contract for the provision of services).