Agreements defining the principles of remote work and their legal nature

Abstract

The consequence of transferring the place of work outside the employer’s premises to the place designated by the employee is the need to adapt the regulations as well as to define in them the standards for employment conditions, in a reality that is challenging. The Labor Code regulations therefore define in a general way the principles of remote work, but the center of gravity has been shifted to the arrangements of the parties or social partners. In the latter case, we are dealing with agreements defining the rules for performing remote work, to which the social partners, namely the union or unions and the employer, are parties. This raises the question of the legal nature of such agreements, in particular whether they can be classified as autonomous sources of labor law. Conclusions drawn on this basis made it possible to answer the question posed in the introduction.