The Czech Minister of Labor and Social Affairs introduced a proposal of amendment to the law on Sickness Insurance of Employees after the Constitutional Court declared null the provision under which no sickness benefits were paid in the first three days of incapacity to work (see our article No. 080423). The Minister did not use this opportunity to secure the reform which obliges employers to provide compensation for wages in the first fourteen days of the sick leave. Indeed, they will have to provide compensation for fourteen days, but not necessarily during the first three days. (Ref. 080471).
Under the proposal, employees will be entitled to sickness benefit corresponding to 25 percent of the daily assessment basis in the first three days of incapacity to work, with effect from 1 September, 2007.
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