Compensation of Injury in the New Civil Code and Compensation for Damage according to the Labour Code

The law No. 89/2012 Coll., Civil Code, effective from 1st January 2014 regulates a new conception of liability for obligations resulting from delicts. Under the New Civil Code a term “damage” is used for any harm to property and “non-pecuniary damage” for other harm.The article deals with the issue of compensation for injury and the legal regulation of payment for damage. In the introduction the author begins with a concept of legal responsibility, further gives attention to way, extent and amount of damage.The new regulation brings some of fundamental changes in compensation of bodily harm and killing. Point classification of pain and lesser employability were cancelled and the amount of theirs compensation will depend on the judicial discretion or on the agreement between the injured and malefactor person. Current legal regulation of compensation is maintained under the Labour Code, which is different from the Civil Code.The author compares differences in legislation and points out to breach of the unity of the legal system and assumes future development of compensation for industrial injuries and occupational diseases according to the Labour Code. The author expects either transition to the concept of accident insurance for employees or approach of legal regulation in civil and labour-law.