The age of the legislative act cannot be an indicator of its content. Therefore, the argument that a new law has to be passed because the existing one is old cannot be convincing, especially if it has been amended many times. It is far more important that the content of the law still reflects the ever-changing relations in the society. Influences for modifying the law may be internal and external. Among first are the acknowledged and legally regulated deficiencies and those who are not detected or regulated. External influences are the ones outside of mandatory health insurance, especially in the form of Constitutional Court decisions and EU law. Advantages of incremental changes are that smaller units can be amended rather fast, without discussing the entire system. In the long run, more comprehensive modernisation in a new legislative act may be even more important. It enables thorough debate and more comprehensive regulation of mandatory health insurance and the entire social security system.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 4275144Developments in communication and information technology are leading to new forms of work and to changes in up till nowadays prevailing employment relationships. In addition they are calling into questions issues related to the "subordination", the basic criterion of the employment relationship, to place of work of the digital worker, to working hours and the duration of work, to boundaries between work and private life, to risks of the health at work. The paper draws the attention of the reader to the mentioned issues and the challenges they may represent for the labour law in the time of digitalisation of our societies.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 263250The article presents a comprehensive legal theoretical and normative concept of a universal basic income (UBI) as a hypothetical part of the existing social security system. The authors derive from the establishment of a legal definition of a UBI and the definition of its legal nature and the right to a UBI. The core of the article is the analysis of all the legal elements of a UBI system and the definition of the regulatory concept. On this basis, a substantive and formal legal position of the beneficiary to a UBI is presented, either in its original form or in one of the conditional, categorical or selective forms. Also discussed are the core effects of a possible introduction of a UBI into the existing social security system, social protection system or social relief system and the system of family benefits. Finally, the opportunities and especially the limitations are presented in the case of a UBI implementation as well as some recommendations for the introduction of individual elements of a universal legal nature into the national social security system.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 15022161The institutes of resettlement and relocation were previously only of marginal importance for the functioning of the European Union. This fact contributed to the inadequate response to the massive influx of refugees in the last year. The sudden nature and size of the refugee wave has caused a variety of reactions in Europe, which reflect the conflicting perceptions of the problem and its solutions. The gap can not be explained only by arguing different economic, demographic and geographic positions, nor with the geo-strategic placement of countries within Europe and in relationship to third countries. We have been witnessing the deepest differences on how to deal with an alien, and in constructing the European and national identity. Despite the harsh opposition of some Member States, the Europeanisation of migration related issues continued to flow in the direction of a more coordinated decision-making process on a transnational level with Member States having a strong influence on the process.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 618495In Slovenia same-sex partners cannot adopt a child together. Each of the partners can adopt a child only by him- or herself. The child can be entirely foreign in relation to the individual partner or can be a child of one of the partners. The same-sex partners do not have the opportunity to become parents on the basis of adoption or parental presumption applied in the procedure of an assisted insemination or the surrogate motherhood. This regulation is used notwithstanding the form of life community of the same-sex partners. The discrepancy between the treatment of same-sex partners and partners of different sex in Partnership Relation Act (Zakon o partnerski zvezi - ZPZ) calls for legislative changes.
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