News in labour-medical care for employees

The amendment of law No 373/2011 Coll. about specific medical services entered into effect on 1 April 2013. Besides other things, this amendment changes the performance of entrance health check-ups of employees.

The employer must keep arranging health check-ups for employees. Newly, the employee must undergo the health check-up before the concluding of the employment contract. In case of the Agreement to Complete a Job or the Agreement to Perform Work, this obligation applies only to the cases set by the act, e.g. dangerous work. On 3 April 2013, implementing decree No 79/2013 Coll. was declared. The decree defines, among others, the types of labour-related medical examinations, their frequency and content, as well as the essentail components of both requests for such examinations and of medical approbation documents confirming the faculty to perform a given job.