Delivery of documents to employees

Written materials that are being delivered by an employer by means of an operator of postal services shall be sent by the employer to the last known address of the employee.

With regard to the fact that the Labour Code does not specify what should be understood under the term “the last known address of the employee”, the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic put an interpretation on this question in its decision as of 23^rd June 2015, Reference Number 21 Cdo 3663/2014.

Information about the address of an employee relate to a place where the employee stays in the long term as well as a place where the employee stays only temporarily (e.g. during his holiday or temporary incapacity to work etc.). According to the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic during the currency of “the temporary address” of the employee that the employer is aware of, the employer is obliged to send all written materials on this temporary address. 

It is not relevant how the employer found out about the address of the employee (whether it was the employee who informed the employer about his new address or whether the employer learned about it from other employees or in some other way). If more addresses of the employee are known to the employer, the employer has to send the written materials on the latest known address.