The Czech Labor Code states that the minimum notice for dismissal must be at least 2 months. The notice period is reduced to 1 month for the following types of dismissals:
It is the same for both employers and employees and can be extended or changed only by written agreement. Effective June 1, 2025, the notice period takes effect on the day on which the notice was delivered to the other party. Notice of termination with respect to an employment relationship must be in writing and state the reason for termination.
For fixed-term employment, the contract expires at the end of the agreed period. However, the employer is required to provide notice of the termination at least 3 days before the event. If the employee continues working after the agreed period, and the employer is aware of the employee's performance, the employment relationship becomes indefinite.
An employee card is a permit for long-time residence in the territory of the Czech Republic, issued where the purpose of the foreign national’s stay (longer than three months) is employment. A foreign national who has an employee card is entitled:
An employee card can be issued to a foreign national for the duration of the employer-employee relationship according to the submitted documents (for example, a contract of employment) for up to two years, with an option of repeated extension of its validity.
The foreign national must request the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic to grant consent with a change of a job position if they are assigned by a job agency to perform work for a different employer (user) and perform different work or to work at the different establishment than the one the existing employee card was issued for.
An employee who has performed work for the same employer for at least 60 days in one calendar year is entitled to leave for that calendar year, or a proportional amount of leave if employment did not last continuously for the entire calendar year.
The standard length of annual leave is 4 weeks. For government employees, annual leave is 5 weeks. Persons employed in education and academic employees of universities are entitled to 8 weeks of annual leave. Employees engaged in particularly arduous or hazardous work are entitled to supplementary leave.
The leave accumulates gradually during the year and any unused annual leave must be taken by the end of the following calendar year. If the leave cannot be used up by the end of the following calendar year because the employee has been declared temporarily unable to work or because of the use of maternity or parental leave, the employer is obliged to determine the period of taking this leave after the end of these obstacles at work. When leave is interrupted due to military service, maternity leave, or paternity leave, annual leave is suspended and can be resumed after the interruption stops.
The standard workweek is 40 hours. The length of a shift may not exceed 12 hours. After continuous work for 6 hours at the utmost, employees are entitled to a work break for a meal and rest lasting at least 30 minutes; an adolescent employee must be given such a break after a maximum of 4.5 hours of continuous work. Employees are allowed to arrange their working hours in shifts under a written agreement with their employer.
Employers are required to draw up a written weekly work schedule and inform employees of the schedule or its alteration at the latest 2 weeks before the beginning of the period over which the working hours are distributed.
In the Czech Republic, a female employee's maternity leave begins at the sixth week before the expected childbirth (the earliest it can start is at 8 weeks before the expected delivery).
An employee is entitled to 28 weeks of maternity leave. If she gave birth to 2 or more children at the same time, she is eligible for 37 weeks of maternity leave.
The Czech Health Insurance Fund funds maternity benefits. An employee must participate in insurance for at least 270 calendar days over the last 2 years before they take maternity leave to receive financial assistance from the fund.
Effective January 1, 2026, the minimum wage base rate is CZK 22,400 (Czech korunas) per month, corresponding to CZK 134.40 per hour for a 40-hour working week. For many employees in the state (public) sector, a guaranteed salary (zaručený plat) applies; for the higher work groups it is higher than the minimum wage. These guaranteed salaries are graded according to the salary grade (platová třída) assigned to the work, which reflects its qualification and complexity requirements.
The Labour Code requires that wages be paid after work is performed, at the latest in the calendar month following the month when the employee is entitled to them. On termination of employment, the employer must pay the employee on the next regular payday after the end of the employment.
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