Employees in Czechia could once again receive no pay for the first three days they are off sick under a proposal gaining support within the governing coalition.

Labor and Social Affairs Minister Aleš Juchelka of ANO said Sunday that he was open to restoring the country's former three-day waiting period, known in Czech as karenční doba. The Motorists party plans to submit legislation bringing the system back.

The change would reverse rules in place since July 2019, under which employees receive reduced wage compensation from their employer beginning with the first working day of an officially recognized illness.

For employees, the practical difference would be significant: if the former system is restored in its previous form, someone who falls ill and stays home for three days could receive no wage compensation for that period.

How Czech sick pay works now, and what could change

Under the current system, an employee who is temporarily unable to work receives wage compensation from their employer during the first 14 days of sick leave. The compensation is based on 60 percent of adjusted average earnings and applies to working days or scheduled shifts.

From the 15th calendar day, responsibility shifts to the state sickness insurance system, which pays sickness benefits.

The proposal being discussed would restore a waiting period at the beginning of that process. The first three days of illness would no longer be compensated, while payments would begin afterward.

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