Range of insured persons
Range of insured persons
As of 1 January 2012, the following gainfully employed individuals shall be parties to pension insurance coverage, provided that the scope of the wage-earning activity establishes their participation in sickness insurance coverage:
Range of insured persons
a) Employed employees;
b) Members of the Police Force of the Czech Republic, the Prison Service of the Czech Republic, the Security Information Service, the Office for Foreign Relations and Information, the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic, the Customs Administration of the Czech Republic, professional soldiers, and civil servant pursuant to the Civil Service Act;
c) Members of cooperatives in cooperatives, if in addition to their industrial relations they also carry out work for the cooperative, for which they receive remuneration;
d) Individuals, who are, pursuant to a special legal regulation, appointed and/or elected to act as the head of an administrative authority or the statutory body of a legal entity established pursuant to a special legal regulation, or to act as the deputy of such a head or statutory body, if this head / statutory body is only one person, and the appointment / election did not result in an employment / service relationship for these persons, and physical entities holding a public office outside of an employment / service relationship pursuant to a special legal regulation, if the Labour Code applies to their employment relationship within the stipulated extent;
e) Employees with an agreement on working activity;
f) Employees based on an agreement to complete a job, provided their reported income exceeds CZK 10 000
g) Judges;
h) Members of municipal councils and city districts / precincts councils of regionally subdivided statutory cities and the city of Prague, who are released, on a long-term basis, to hold the office or who were not employed prior to being elected as councilmen, however, who hold the office to the same extent as councilmen released on a long-term basis;
ch) Members of the Chamber of Deputies and Senators of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic and the Members of the European Parliament, elected within the Czech Republic;
i) The President of the Czech Republic, cabinet members, the president, the Vice-President, and members of the Supreme Audit Office, members of the Council for Radio and Television Broadcasting, members of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, members of the Czech Telecommunication Office, the financial arbitrator, the deputy financial arbitrator, the Public Defender of Rights, and the Deputy of the Public Defender of Rights;
j) Voluntary day care employees;
k) Foster-parents, who provide foster care within establishments that provide foster care pursuant to a special legal regulation, or who receive remuneration for providing foster care as a foster-parent in special cases pursuant to a special legal regulation;
l) Convicted persons serving a sentence of imprisonment enrolled for work and Individuals serving a prison sentence reintegrated into work and persons in security detention reintegrated into work
m) Employees within employment concluded according to foreign legal regulations.
n) Partners and executives of limited liability companies and limited partners in special limited partnerships if they carry out work for the company outside of an employment relationship and such work is remunerated, and directors of public undertakings or utilities if they carry out work for the company outside of an employment relationship and such work is remunerated
o) Authorised agents (proxies) if their income from their work as agents (proxies) is deemed income from dependent activity under the Income Tax Act
p) Members of collective bodies of legal persons, where such members are remunerated for their work in such bodies, provided the income for their work in such bodies is deemed income from dependent activity or emoluments under the Income Tax Act
q) Liquidators (receivers) if their income from their work as liquidators (receivers) is deemed dependent activity under the Income Tax Act
r) Heads (directors) of establishments (branches) of legal persons where the registered office of such legal person is located in a state with which the Czech Republic has not concluded an international agreement on social security, provided such establishments (branches) are registered in the Commercial Register and the permanent place of work of such heads (directors) is in the Czech Republic.
The period of insurance shall be documented by one’s personal pension insurance file.
Self-employed persons, provided they carry on their business in the Czech Republic and fulfil certain stipulated conditions, and persons who voluntarily take part in pension insurance shall also be parties to pension insurance.
Latest modifications 3. 2. 2012