ESFTUG provides legal advice to its members, which helps them to better understand and protect their rights.
ESFTUG lawyers constantly receive questions from members and request assistance.
Legal advice is an internal mechanism of ESFTUG, which the organization effectively uses to protect the social and labor rights of its members.
An ESFTUG member may request legal advice on the following issues:
Any issue related to the violation or improvement of the social and labor rights of an employee in the field of education;
Any issue related to the development of quality education.
ESFTUG lawyers not only provide legal advice to members, but also, if necessary, represent the member at various instances, including in court.
To protect the rights of its members, ESFTUG may:
File a lawsuit in court in accordance with the legislation;
to file an application, an administrative claim and appear in court or another body dealing with labor disputes;
to create legal departments within the structures.
Legal advice:
The right to create and join a trade union
You have the right to create and/or join a trade union without the prior permission of the employer (Article 401 of the “Labor Code”);
Joining or leaving the ESFTUG ranks is voluntary and is carried out on the basis of a written application (ESFTUG Charter);
An ESFTUG member may be a person working in the field of education and science or temporarily unemployed, as well as a student of a pedagogical institution.
A retired ESFTUG member may retain membership if he/she wishes (ESFTUG Charter);
The basis of the structure of the SPMTP is the primary trade union organization, which is created from employees of various types of educational and scientific institutions, if at least three persons wish (ESFTUG Charter).
Remember!
Any discrimination of an employee in a trade union is prohibited due to membership or participation in the activities of such a union and/or other actions aimed at:
Employment or retention of employment of an employee in exchange for refusal to join a trade union or withdrawal from such a union;
Termination of employment relations with an employee or other harassment of the employee due to membership in a trade union or participation in the activities of such a union (Labor Code Article 402).
This type of pressure on the part of the employer is a criminal offense and is punishable by dismissal of the employer from the position held and/or imprisonment for up to three years in accordance with the applicable legislation.