Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to Czech Republic as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
Czech Republic: Report on fathers’ take up of parental leave across Europe
According to a new report by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), the proportion of fathers taking parental and paternity leave is increasing in most EU Member States, although it is still fairly low …
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Czech Republic: Minimum wage increase in January 2015
The government of the Czech Republic has announced that the national minimum wage will increase to 9,200 koruna (334 euros/433 US dollars) per month as of January 1st 2015 …
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Czech Republic: Statistics on the transition from work to retirement
The European Union’s statistical office, Eurostat, has recently published data on the transition from work to retirement in the EU during 2012 …
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Czech Republic: Short-time working for companies affected by Russian boycott
The possibility of subsidised short-time working has been introduced in the Netherlands in order to lessen the impact of the Russian boycott of EU goods on businesses …
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Czech Republic: Bilateral agreement on social security ratified
A treaty between the Czech Republic and the Russian Federation on social security has now been ratified …
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Czech Republic: Employers to face higher fines under amended Employment Act
The President of the Czech Republic has signed a new law amending the Employment Act …
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Czech Republic: Low levels of collective redundancy
The latest information from the Czech Republic’s Labour Office shows that in May 2014 only nine employers reported collective redundancies to the country’s labour offices …
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Czech Republic: End of green cards
Green cards are to be abolished in the Czech Republic and replaced by “employee cards” …
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Czech Republic: Signing a notice of termination
The Supreme Court of the Czech Republic has confirmed in a recent case that if the company memorandum of association states that two executives act jointly on behalf of the company, both of them must sign the notice of termination …
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Czech Republic: National minimum wage increase
The government of the Czech Republic has announced that it plans to increase the national monthly minimum wage in January 2015 by 500 koruna (approximately 18 euros) …
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Czech Republic: Call to bring in more penalties for employee monitoring
Czech Ombudsman, Anna Šabatová, has presented to lawmakers a number of recommendations to strengthen the protection of workers in the Czech Republic …
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Czech Republic: Increase in fines for labour law breaches
According to statistics released by the Czech Republic’s State Labour Inspection Office, companies had to pay CZK 57 million (2,082,000 euros) in 2013 for violating labour laws …
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Czech Republic: Increase in part-time workers
According to a recent survey, the number of part-time workers in the Czech Republic rose by nearly 60,000 to 326,000 in the first half of the year — an increase of 22% …
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Czech Republic: Five-year wage deal
Agreement has been reached between the Czech coal mining company OKD and its trade union negotiators on a 5-year wage agreement …
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