Review article
https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.47.1.14
Different Regulation of Working Time for Family Members Employed in Family Businesses
Sandra Laleta
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
*
Karla Kotulovski
orcid.org/0000-0001-5792-1917
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Law
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
Family businesses represent a distinct organisational and managerial context in which family and business relationships are intertwined. Flexible working-time arrangements may serve as a useful instrument for achieving a balance between the private and professional lives of employees in such business systems. At the centre of the analysis is the legal institute of different regulation of working-time arrangements for workers who autonomously organise their working time. The Croatian legislator permits derogations from the general working-time regime for certain categories of workers, including family members employed by a natural person. Particular attention is paid to the conceptual definition of autonomous workers, the criteria for applying derogations from working-time rules, and the issue of measuring working time. The paper also analyses the compatibility of national legislation with Directive 2003/88/EC on the organisation of working time, as well as with the relevant case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which insists on a restrictive interpretation of derogations.
Keywords
family business; family members; working time; autonomous workers.
Hrčak ID:
346139
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Publication date:
15.4.2026.
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