Within the scope of its research activities, the Department manages to obtain funding for and participate in research projects. Up to the present day, the Department implemented the following research projects:
- APVV-16-0002 “Mental Health in the Workplace and Employee Health Assessment”, 07/2017-06/2021, principal investigator M. Dolobáč
- VEGA no. 1/0526/17 “Linguistic and Sanction Mechanisms related to Law Making and Impact of Labour Law”, 01/2017-12/2019, principal investigator M. Dolobáč
- VEGA no. 1/0790/20 “Employee Protection in the context of Industrial Revolution 5.0 – Backgrounds, Options and Risks”, 01/2020-12/2022, principal investigator M. Dolobáč
- VEGA no. 1/0291/23 “Legislative challenges for Labour Law in the creation of diverse and inclusive workplaces”, 01/2023-12/2025, principal investigator J. Žuľová.
The APVV-16-0002 project of the Department deserves a special mention and recognition for it initiated a closer cooperation between the Department and the private sector. Furthermore, in respect of the research results of the Department, the Commission for economic and legal sciences of the VEGA Grant Scheme Agency acknowledged the significance of the Department’s project VEGA no. 1/0790/20 and ranked it among the top five successfully implemented projects in the category of Economic and Legal Sciences.
Research and scientific activities of the Department also include regular organization of scientific conferences. Over the past years, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department opted to organize virtual international scientific conferences, for example “Employee in the digital environment” (2021), “Health at work in the spectrum of theory and practice” (2021) or “Health capacity of employees” (2020). The Department has continued with the organization of scientific conferences to the present day. On 29th September 2023, the Department will welcome attendees of the international conference (also with regards to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Faculty) titled “Diverse and inclusive work- places – legislative challenges”. For the first time in the history of the Department the conference will be held in a hybrid format, id est, involving in-person meeting and via a virtual online platform.
Apart from conferences organized by the Department of Labour Law and Social Security Law, the academic staff of the Department attend other events striving to interconnect theory and practice in the areas of Labour Law and Social Security Law. The Department participated at the fourth EPI conference on “Labour Law”, targeted especially at HR departments, in-house lawyers, law offices, public authorities and self-governing entities, entrepreneurs, head employees and others concerned.
