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A comprehensive amendment of the Takeovers Act (Zakon o spremembah in dopolnitvah Zakona o prevzemih, ZPre-1G) came into force on 23 October 2015. The amendment specifically regulates certain issues related to the protection of security holders and the effectiveness of the supervision of the takeover procedure.

Employees are entitled to a certain right to privacy even at the workplace, despite the fact that the employer as the owner of working means (e.g. computers, mobile phones) has the right to oversee their usage as well as the right to detect and prevent the commission of disciplinary offences by its employees. The Information Commissioner is of the opinion that an interference with the right to privacy of employees at the workplace is only lawful if such interference is legitimate and proportionate to the objective pursued by the employer. A basis for the processing of all the personal data of employees without their explicit consent is not provided by law.

In case C-266/14 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided on the preliminary question of whether time spent traveling to and from work in the case of fieldwork amounts to “working time” within the meaning of Directive 2003/88/EC concerning certain aspects of the organisation of working time.

Due to the fact that the National Assembly extended the possibility of temporary incentives for the employment of young unemployed persons for another year, employers can conclude employment contracts under more beneficial conditions until 31 December 2015.

Until now, copyright and related rights holders were able to blindly rely on technology in order to detect online publications (YouTube, Facebook, etc.) of their work.