The chapter aims to describe the general attitude of Hungarian labour law towards EU labour law, and to underline some illustrative, controversial issues that may be used to highlight the (rather frequent) deficits of compliance of Hungarian labour law with EU labour laws. Furthermore, the paper also intends to highlight some of the specificities and trends of EU labour law itself that render full and committed compliance a challenge from the outset. The two main theses of the paper are as follows. On the one hand, it seems that Hungarian labour law in general tends to regard EU labour law directives not only as a minimum, but also as a maximum, in the sense of their original purpose, and to ‘go the extra mile’ in implementing these rules in a very flexible way, in line with the needs of the local labour market. On the other hand, it is also clear that EU labour law has a number of inherent characteristics and relatively new trends that make ‘compliance’ and adherence difficult and create uncertainties.