Summary

This article analyses the procedure in force for the compensation of damage caused by an employee to his or her employer and the corresponding court practice that has developed. Issues concerning the liability of employees should be regulated in a different manner than that provided by the existing Labour Code, which is outdated and the implementation of which causes several problems in practice. This area of law is planned to be regulated by the Law of Obligations Act to be introduced to the Riigikogu in the near future. However, the proprietary liability of an employee is governed by different rules in different versions of the Bill for the Law of Obligations Act. The author of this article focuses on the corresponding provisions of different versions of the Bill and comes to the conclusion that the procedure for compensation of damage caused by an employee to his or her employer must be regulated in sufficient depth.