Student work is a special form of temporary or occasional work that may be performed by university and high school students on the basis of a student mediator's referral. Despite its long tradition and many positive effects that student work has, due to its flexible nature and large scale, puts a strain on the labor market, as it is one form of work by which employers replace regular employment. The limited labor protection of students and the current unsystematic arrangement of student work raise in practice many problems that the master's thesis entitled The Current Issues of Student Work in Practice tries to identify and propose appropriate improvements for them.
The most common problem remains the misunderstanding of the purpose of student work, that is, the temporary and occasional performance of student work. In fact, the practice still holds that the student work is always legal when a referral from a mediator is issued. From the employers' point of view, the problem is mainly the increase in the cost of student work, which leads to a decrease in the scope of the latter, but not at the expense of increasing regular employment, but other flexible or illegal (undeclared) forms of work. While performing work as a student with the employer, the problem is unreliability of the first and many illegal practices of others, such as, for example, disabling the break during working hours, not paying the latter, etc.
Despite the solid satisfaction of those involved with the institute, labor law issues in the field of student work remain and should be addressed in the future, in particular through comprehensive and rounded regulation of the field and clearer awareness of the rights and obligations of individuals involved.
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