The COVID-19 pandemic challenges society and economy, which expects labour law and social security regulations response. The so-called anti-crisis act enables employees' rights to be limited and public aid to be granted. Suspensive collective agreements provided for in the special serve this purpose. Authors, analyzing the subjective and objective side of these agreements, indicate similarities and differences between them. At the same time, they draw attention to their different structures and showlegislative shortcomings in this respect, trying to appraise the effectiveness and efficiency of suspensive collective arrangements in practice.