Bills being prepared

The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs is preparing changes to acts in the field of sickness and pension insurance, which are expected to take effect on 1 January 2012. If these changes are accepted, members of collective bodies of legal entities (such as members of board of directors and supervisory board of public limited companies), participants and executives of private limited companies, limited partners of limited partnerships (limited partners will be newly obliged to participate only in sickness insurance), authorized signatories, liquidators and managers of branches of foreign legal entities from non-contractual states will have a new obligation to be covered by pension and sickness insurance. In case of members of collective bodies of legal entities, authorized signatories and liquidators, they must fulfill the condition that their income be considered as income from employment activities pursuant to the Income Tax Act.

Sickness and pension insurance contributions should be newly paid under an agreement on performance of work in cases where the remuneration exceeds CZK 5,000.