Legal
One step closer to interconnecting commercial registers within EU
The harmonisation of EU law regarding the use of digital tools and processes in corporate law has taken on a concrete form: an amendment to the Act on Public Registers, implementing a part of the changes prescribed by the EU directive into Czech law…
Old/new programmes to support employers at the time of the pandemic
At the turn of December and January, the government approved a series of compensatory measures with a total value of CZK 10 billion. Some compensatory measures are brand new; other represent only extensions of existing ones. Below we summarise those…
The Office for Personal Data Protection advises data controllers on personal data…
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has introduced a new obligation for data controllers: to carry out a data protection impact assessment (DPIA). The obligation concerns the processing of data that involves a high risk of impacting the…
Losing Antivirus contributions owing to formal errors
The Antivirus Programme is considered one of the most successful and best performing support programmes that the government introduced during the pandemic. According to statistics published by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs at the end of…
What will 2021 bring for employers in terms of labour and foreigners’ law?
For employers, the past year has been one of the most turbulent in modern Czech history in terms of the number of legislative changes adopted. New regulations relating to the coronavirus pandemic were being adopted non-stop, and literally amended on…
Second wave of emergency carer’s allowance
As in the spring, the government has responded to the second wave of the pandemic by taking steps to financially support both employers and employees, as well as the self-employed. Among other things, the measures adopted include an ‘emergency’…
Antivirus A Plus – improved support for closed businesses
On 14 October 2020, the government extended Regime A of the Antivirus programme until the end of the year, and at the same time launched Regime A Plus with retroactive effect from October 1. The new regime offers significantly more favourable…
Travellers’ Traffic Light (Semafor) changing colours
On 9 November 2020, the Czech Ministry of Health disclosed a measure regulating the rules for foreign nationals arriving and staying in the Czech Republic. Countries are divided into three groups according to the level of risk of infection and are…
Ministry of the Interior’s operations limited during pandemic
As the pandemic develops, the functioning of some departments of the Ministry of the Interior, namely the Department of Asylum and Migration Policy (OAMP) and the Department of the Foreigners’ Police, has been changed. Until now, only clients with…
Online fraud or: “misfortune a mouse click away”
Increasingly often, we’ve come across cases where clients have fallen victim to sophisticated online fraud. Since virtually anyone can potentially become a victim of social engineering, let this article be a warning of this dangerous phenomenon.
Changes in occupational health services during state of emergency
The government has adopted an emergency measure on periodic and other health checks. As in the spring, the measure introduces the possibility to use (in specified cases) affidavits instead of initial health checks, or not to perform periodic health…
Record-breaking spam penalty
In August of this year, the Office for Personal Data Protection (the Office) imposed the highest fine to date for the repeated unsolicited sending of commercial communications (spam). The company selling second hand cars paid CZK 6 million.