The topic of this final thesis is the establishment of an employment relationship. The paper began with the study of the Labor Law as a key legal source for writing this paper and other literature that helped when compiling the final paper. An employment relationship implies a legal relationship between an employer and an employee. The establishment of a legal relationship results from the conclusion of an employment contract between the employer and the employee. The employment contract can be concluded for an indefinite full-time or part-time period or for a certain full-time or part-time period. After defining the basic parts of establishing an employment relationship, some special forms of establishing an employment relationship are also listed, such as establishing an employment relationship in state services, establishing an employment relationship with minors, students and persons with disabilities. In addition to the establishment of an employment relationship, part of the work is also devoted to the termination of the employment relationship, the methods of termination of the employment relationship between employer and employee are listed. The main forms of termination of employment are regular and extraordinary termination of employment and termination of employment by force of law. When the employment relationship is terminated, the worker's rights to severance pay and the notice period, as well as judicial termination of the contract and conditions for the suspension of the employment relationship are specified. During the writing of the final paper, the literature from domestic sources, laws and regulations, scientific articles and websites was mostly used. The main goal of this final thesis is to show the facts and issues of establishing an employment relationship and its termination.