In the judgment of 29 June, 2023 in case No. SKC-261/2023, the Civil Cases Department of the Senate of the Republic of Latvia assessed the issue of the features of bossing in employment relations.

At some point, every employer has had to deal with employees who do not take all or part of their statutory annual paid leave ("annual leave") for a long period of time.

The Act now in force has brought new changes to the working rules of posted workers living and working in Latvia.

Latvia announced a state of emergency on 12 March 2020 in relation to the spread of Covid-19. This article explains the consequences for employers.

Further to the topic raised in the previous Newsletter about status of a board member at an enterprise in the context of the labour law and responses of the Court of Justice (hereafter CJ) to the request for preliminary ruling submitted by the Department of Civil Cases of the Senate of the Supreme Court (hereafter, the Senate) an overview of the adjudications contained in the judgment of the Senate will be given.

On May 1 2004 Latvia joined the European Union, and thereby undertook to obey EU law and implement its provisions into the national legislation.