Legal
"Semafor" – new rules for travelling across the Czech border
On 1 June 2020, the government approved the Ministry of Health’s new protective measure entering into effect on Monday 15 June. The measure is called "Semafor", owing to its visual similarity to traffic lights. It regulates the conditions for…
Antivirus programme with a new coat
The government decided to extend current Regime B of the Antivirus programme and, simultaneously, the chamber of deputies approved long-awaited Regime C, involving the waiver of part of social security premiums and state employment policy…
Residence of foreigners after the state of emergency
During the state of emergency, the Asylum and Migration Policy Section of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in charge of the foreign nationals agenda, limited its activity to essential matters concerning the residence of foreigners. How is it…
Employee protection against employer’s insolvency reinstated
The protection of employees against their employer’s insolvency is not new in the Czech system of law. However, with the adoption of ‘Lex Covid’ in connection with the coronavirus pandemic, it had been temporarily taken away: employees lost the…
Detailed guidance on consent under GDPR
At the beginning of May 2020, the European Data Protection Board (formerly the Article 29 Working Party) issued new guidelines on obtaining and proving consent with personal data processing from data subjects, supplementing the existing Article 29…
Antivirus programme update
At the beginning of April, the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs launched the “Antivirus” programme, enabling employers to get a partial refund for the compensations for salaries they had to pay to their employees due to certain impediments to…
Further loosening of rules for foreigners
On 4 May 2020, the government adopted several resolutions significantly expanding the options for foreign employees to come to work in the Czech Republic, thus at least partially accommodating the needs of employers. The government should resume the…
New duty to provide information on tourism services
Within the measures adopted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators have passed a legal amendment introducing the duty for tourism services intermediaries (typically Airbnb and similar platforms) to provide information on these services to…
Will tax administrators have to file taxpayers’ financial statements in the…
At the end of January, a group of deputies submitted a draft amendment to the Act on Public Registers that introduces the duty of tax administrators to file on behalf of individuals and corporate entities recorded in public registers their ordinary,…
Permits to mediate employment complicate employment of foreign nationals
Last year’s amendment to the Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals forbids foreigners with employee cards to change their employers if these are employment agencies, i.e. entities holding a licence for the mediation of employment. These involve…
Amendment to Civil Code abolishes pre-emptive right
In April 2020, an amendment to the Civil Code that may significantly enhance the liquidity of residential units was published in the Collection of Laws. Although a drop in real property prices is expected in connection with the COVID-19 outbreak,…
Certain issues concerning postponement of loan repayment
A new Act specifying certain measures related to repayment of loans during the COVID-19 pandemic came into effect on 17 April 2020. However, the possibility of postponing the repayment of certain loans entails some interpretation ambiguities as well…