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As of January 2016, the prescribed default interest rate remains the same as in 2015, i.e. 8.05% per annum.

The European Court of Human Rights recently decided that a company that fired an employee who had used the “Yahoo Messenger” application at work for personal communications, and not for work purposes, and the company had monitored the “Yahoo Messenger” account of the employee, did not violate the employee’s right to privacy. Does this mean that employers can now monitor employees’ personal communications without restriction?

Upon the termination of the collective agreement for the construction industry in August 2013, the social partners, in spite of the unenviable situation in the industry and after two years of negotiations, managed to agree on a new Collective Agreement for the Construction Industry, which applies from 1 January 2016 onwards.

In addition to the recently changed definition of the minimum wage by the Minimum Wage Act, employers' organisations are now strongly criticising the decision of the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities regarding the amount of the new minimum wage.