Sickness insurance
The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (MLSA) in Announcement No. 380/2021 Coll. from 11 October 2021 increases the reduction limits for the adjustment of the daily assessment base (DAB) valid from 1 January 2022 for the calculation of the amount of sickness insurance benefits. The new reduction limits are as follows:
Year |
| 2021 | 2022 |
Reduction limits in sickness insurance | I. | CZK 1 182 | CZK 1 298 |
II. | CZK 1 773 | CZK 1 946 | |
III. | CZK 3 545 | CZK 3 892 | |
Reduction limits for compensation of wage during a temporary incapacity for work | I. | CZK 206.85 | CZK 227.15 |
II. | CZK 310.28 | CZK 340.55 | |
III. | CZK 620.38 | CZK 681.10 |
The decisive income for participation in sickness insurance to arise is not increasing from 1.1.2022 - it remains at CZK 3 500.
Paternity leave
- if all other conditions are met, the support period amounts to 2 weeks (in 2021 it was 1 week, i.e., 7 calendar days)
- in the event of the hospitalisation of a child, the period during which the father may take paternity leave during the first six weeks from the date of birth of the child is extended by the number of days of hospitalisation of the child (however, it will be possible to start paternity leave up to the child’s first birthday at the latest)
Long-term care
- the period during which the person to be treated must be hospitalised is reduced from a minimum of 7 consecutive calendar days to 4 calendar days
- now the condition of hospitalisation applies to persons in the final stages of incurable diseases