Act No. 144 / 1946 Coll.
Act on Single Trade Union Organisation
Valid
Effective from 24.06.1946
144.
Law
of 16 May 1946
on a unified union organization.
The Provisional National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Republic decided on the following Act:
Unified union organization.
(1) The working people in the Czechoslovak Republic are organised in a unified trade union organization set up in the form of a society that brings together all employees, provided that Czechoslovak nationals are on the basis of voluntary membership, full equality and mutual solidarity. The admission of members, unless they are Czechoslovak state citizens, is regulated by the Statutes.
(2) The purpose of the single trade union is, in particular, to bring together the working people, to bring them into active cooperation on the construction of a people's democratic state, to provide them with the right to do so and to defend their economic, social and cultural interests. The statutes shall lay down the details.
(3) The Single Trade Union Organisation uses the name of the Revolutionary Trade Union Movement (ROH), unless this name is amended by the statutes.
The single trade union organisation shall have the right in particular to:
1. Control the organisational construction of the trade union movement and issue organisational and working orders (directives) to that end.
2. Exclusive establishment, after dissolving their trade unions, organs and subsidiary associations and managing their activities.
3. To ensure that every worker has the right to work and, according to his or her merits and the ability to have a position appropriate to general interests, fair pay for work, the right to rest and to cultural life, and to carry out his or her duties in popular democracy.
4. Ensure that the working people participate in the administration and building of cultural and social facilities for the working people, build and manage such facilities.
5. To negotiate and maintain an overview of the general state of the needs of the working people, to draw up a work plan accordingly, to regularly supplement it and to take care of it.
6. In the framework of their tasks, negotiate and maintain contact and cooperation with similar movements and organisations in other States and international facilities.
In order for a unified trade union organisation, as a representative of the Czechoslovak working people, to fulfil the tasks set out above, it belongs in particular to:
1. Submit proposals and returns to the holder of legislative and executive powers and to the public administration of social, economic, health and cultural, in all cases concerning the interests of the working people;
2. to send representatives of the staff to all the college bodies with public authority to the posts reserved for the posts, provided that they are not filled by an election under the regulations issued.
Offices, courts, holders of insurance, public institutions and corporations, as well as racing bodies, representing employees under the law, shall be required to support a unified trade union organisation in the performance of its tasks and to provide it with the necessary free communication for its activities, unless this is excluded by law or for other important reasons.
General transitional and final provisions.
Until the establishment of a single trade union organization, the Central Council of Trade Unions in Prague and Slovakia is considered to be the legal predecessor of this unified trade union organisation. All legal acts carried out by or against these authorities after 5 May 1945 entitle them to a unified trade union organisation. The measures of those authorities are considered to be measures of a single trade union organisation.
Transfer of fortune.
(1) The property held by German trade union organisations such as Deutsche Arbeitsfront, Kraft durch Freude, as well as other such organisations and facilities, which are followed by a unified trade union organisation, is transferred to this and is its property.
(2) The property held by other trade union organisations, such as the National Employee Trade Unions, the Headquarters of Public Employees, as well as other organisations and establishments pursuing the tasks for which the Unified Trade Union Organisation is called, is transferred to this, shall be its property, and shall be used for current purposes.
(3) Paragraphs 1 and 2 apply mutatis mutandis in Slovakia as regards the assets of Slovenskej pracujúcej pospolitosti and its components, namely the assets of Sdruženia przružníkov priečených, business and penažníctva, Pôdohodárské skupňenia, Sdruženia štátnych and veřné zamestnanov, Sdruženia sprženčníkov priečených, business and penožnícínícíců, as well as well as the interest associations of national groups, the interests of the Deutsche le Partei, Kraft durch Freude, Deutsches Heimatswerk and Magyar Nemzeti Párt of 25 May 1945, and other trade unions, which were dissolved by the Slovak National Council Regulation of 1 September 1944, no.
(1) Univerný bosporová organizace ručí za žastiva Slovenskej pracujúcej pospolitosti a čímá individuálý společnost jedno do vývojzatené active výrobky.
(2) Creditors must declare their claims if they do not come from titles contrary to the principles of popular democratic establishment within 30 days of the entry into force of this law by registered letter of the Unified Trade Union Organisation. This period is precarious. After that, all claims shall cease.
(3) The time limit for the performance of the undertakings (paragraph 1) shall begin 30 days after the completion of the acquisition of all the substantial amounts of the assets of each association into ownership and holding by a single trade union organisation, but first on 1 June 1946.
In case of doubt as to whether the assets of an organisation within the meaning of Article 6 are owned by a single trade union, after hearing this organisation, the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare decides in agreement with the Ministry of the Interior, in Slovakia by analogy the Social Welfare Committee in agreement with Posporenictva.
(1) With the exception of legal proceedings, it is for the single trade union organisation and its organisational bodies to have written contact with the public authorities and others in Article 4 of the Act of Accession of the Court of Justice of the European Union, as well as the administrative fees.
(2) The transfer of assets pursuant to Article 6 is not subject to transfer or deposit fees and are exempt from the enrichment tax and the property value increase levy. These exemptions also apply to other transfers of capital, other than those referred to in Paragraph 6.
(3) Paragraph 2 shall also apply to transfers of assets carried out at the Central Council of Trade Unions before the application of this Act.
The Unified Trade Union Organisation and its Organisations shall be further exempt from the fee equivalent for movable assets in whole and shall be subject to a rate of 0.3% for immovable property from the first day of the calendar quarter following the date of application of this Act. Until then, the fee equivalent of the assets held by them is still valid at the amount fixed. If 10 years have not elapsed since the acquisition of real estate by a charge, the property of which is transferred to a unified trade union organisation, the provisions of § 8 of the Second Law of 8 April 1938, No. 76 Coll., on the fee equivalent shall apply.
Efficiency.
This Act shall take effect on the day of its publication. It shall be carried out by the Minister for Labour and Social Welfare in agreement with the Minister for Home Affairs and other Ministers involved.
Dr Beneš v. r.
Fierlinger v. r.
Dr. Unedible v. r.
for the Minister, Dr. Šoltésze.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 144 / 1946 Coll., on Unified Trade Union Organisation |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 24.06.1946 |
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| Effective from | 24.06.1946 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
The regulation text is for informational purposes only.
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