Abstract
rich and flourishing Czech collective labour law world had been profoundly changed during Nazi and mainly Communistic Ara, where the role assigned to collective agreements was diminished to a soft plan implementing directives of the State. After our return to democracy, it is obvious that we had to adopt not only new democratic regulations but also to re-build informal structures.
Because of suppressed role of trade unions, poor level of social dialogue and a number of statutory regulations, Czech collective agreements are cursed to play only a secondary role even in the near future.