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Participation – insured persons

Participation in sickness insurance is compulsory for employees, including contract employees: Contract employee means an employee of the employer whose registered office is in a “non-contracting foreign country”, i.e. in a state outside the European Union or outside the territory of states with which the Czech Republic has an international social security agreement, if the employee is working in the Czech Republic with the employer established in the Czech Republic (a contract employer).

The conditions for participation are the performance of activities in the Czech Republic and the minimum amount of agreed income.

The employer has a legal obligation

• to notify the day of the employee’s commencement of employment, which established his or her participation in the insurance, and the day of termination of employment. These and other specified data shall be notified by the employer to the competent DSSA on the prescribed form Notification of commencement of employment (termination of employment), within 8 calendar days. The employee has no notification obligation in relation to the DSSA,

• pay for the employee’s sickness insurance. More on.

Foreign employees may voluntarily participate in sickness insurance: Foreign employee means an employee working in the Czech Republic for the benefit of a foreign employer, i.e. an employer who has its registered office in the territory of a state with which the Czech Republic has not concluded an international social security agreement or a state that does not apply the EU coordination regulation. Participation in voluntary sickness insurance is possible if the foreign employee also voluntarily participates in pension insurance.

Participation is established by submitting an application available for self-employed persons and for foreign employees.

The following are excluded from participation in employees’ sickness insurance:

• employees working in the Czech Republic for an employer who enjoys diplomatic privileges and immunities if they participate in insurance in another state,
• employees working in the Czech Republic for an international organisation, if they participate in insurance through this international organisation and declare in writing to the sickness insurance authority that they wish to be excluded from insurance in the Czech Republic for this reason,
• persons who are not citizens of the Czech Republic or citizens of the European Union and are employed in the Czech Republic without a valid residence permit in the Czech Republic.

Anyone who performs several activities establishing participation in sickness insurance (e.g. a person that works simultaneously based on several labour-law relationships) is insured separately from each activity.

Work abroad – sickness insurance and maternity

Persons who are insured in a state other than the state in which they reside should be familiar with the regulations of the state where they are insured. In these cases, the assessment of entitlement to a benefit, its amount and its payment are governed by the regulations of the state where the employee/ self-employed person is insured. In the case of EU countries or countries with which the Czech Republic has an agreement on social security concluded, the foreign insurance company (employer) is obliged to accept a certificate of incapacity for work issued in the Czech Republic, or medical documentation in the Czech language.

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