Employee Card
- Employee Card: Basic Information
- Submitting an Application for an Employee Card
- Special Cases / Non-Dual Mode Employee Card
- Course of the Proceedings on Application for an Employee Card
- Unreliable employer
- Extension of the Validity of an Employee Card
- Change of Employer or Job or Taking up Employment in an Additional Job or with an Additional Employer
- Visa for the Purpose of Collecting a Residence Permit - D/VR
- Cancellation and cessation of an Employee Card
- Options concerning the temporary assignment of a holder of an employee card by a job agency to a different employer (user) to perform work
- Quotas for acceptance of applications for staff cards at embassies & Programmes approved by the government to achieve economic benefits for the country
Employee Card: Basic Information
Employee Card: Basic Information
Information about Employee card can be found on the Official Portal for Foreigners.
Submitting an Application for an Employee Card
Submitting an Application for an Employee Card
Information about Submitting an Application for an Employee Card in the Territory of the Czech Republic can be found on the Official Portal for Foreigners on this link, information about Submitting an Application for an Employee Card outside the Territory of the Czech republic can be found on the Official Portal for Foreigners on this link.
Special Cases / Non-Dual Mode Employee Card
Special Cases / Non-Dual Mode Employee Card
Information about Free Acces to the Labour Market can be foundon the Official Portal for Foreigners on this link, Information about the Proof of Free Acces to the Labour Market can be found on this link.
Course of the Proceedings on Application for an Employee Card
Course of the Proceedings on Application for an Employee Card
Course pof the Proceedings on Aplication for an Employee Card can be found on the Official Portal for Freigners on this link and on this link, more Information about the Administrative Proceedings can be found on this link.
Unreliable employer
Unreliable employer
The Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals excludes the issuance of an employee card or the granting of a consent with employment of a foreign national with a different employer, if this employer is unreliable. The concept of an unreliable employer is primarily designed to prevent concealed employment of foreign nationals by job agencies and to prevent those employers who systematically fail to comply with their obligations arising from other than industrial regulations (public medical insurance, social security) from employing foreign nationals.
Within the meaning of Section 178f of the Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals, an employer is an unreliable employer in the following cases:
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The employer is not a party that is free of debt
An employer that is free of debt is an employer for whom there are no arrears registered with the Tax Authority, customs administration, arrears in insurance premium for social security and in insurance premium for medical insurance. An arrear is not deemed to be an arrear if delay in the payment or the dividing of the payment into instalments was permitted. -
A fine for allowing performance of an illegal work was imposed on the employer
An unreliable employer is an employer on whom a fine for allowing performance of an illegal work was imposed with a final effect during a period of 4 months preceding the filing of an application for an employee card. -
The employer does not carry out any economic activity
An unreliable employer is also an employer who does not carry out any economic activity in their line of business or the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic was unable to verify this fact. -
The employer failed to comply with the obligation to register a foreign national for insurance
An unreliable employer is an employer who failed the obligation to register their employee for participation in social security insurance or public medical insurance during the period of the last year. -
The employer is in liquidation
An unreliable employer is an employer who is in liquidation. -
The employer’s registered office is not real
An unreliable employer is also an employer who is a legal entity and whose office registered in public registers is not real. An office that is deemed to be real is an office where crucial decisions concerning the business management of the employer are taken or a place where the meetings of the employer’s management are held.
If some of the conditions above is fulfilled, unreliable employer can also be legal person or natural person to which foreign national is temporarily allocated by job agency on the basis of agreement between job agency and user (it means employer to whom foreign national is allocated by job agency).
The fact that an employer is unreliable is a reason not to issue an employee card to a foreign national, referred to in Section 46(6)(d) of the Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals, or a reason not to grant consent with a change of an employer, referred to in Section 42g(7) of the Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals. The unreliability of employer is an obstacle in case of the application for an extension the validity of the Employee Card as well.
Extension of the Validity of an Employee Card
Extension of the Validity of an Employee Card
More Information about ean Extension of the Validity of an Employee card can be found on the Official Portal for Foreigners.
Change of Employer or Job or Taking up Employment in an Additional Job or with an Additional Employer
Change of Employer or Job or Taking up Employment in an Additional Job or with an Additional Employer
Information about Change of Employer or Job or Taking up Employment in an Additional Job or with an Additional Employer can be found on the Official Portal for Foreigners.
Visa for the Purpose of Collecting a Residence Permit - D/VR
Visa for the Purpose of Collecting a Residence Permit - D/VR
Information about Visa for a Stay Longer than 90 Days for the Purpose of Collection of a Residence Permit (D/VR) can be found on the Official Portal for Foreigners.
Cancellation and cessation of an Employee Card
Cancellation and cessation of an Employee Card
Information can be found on the Official We Portal for Foreigners.
Options concerning the temporary assignment of a holder of an employee card by a job agency to a different employer (user) to perform work
Options concerning the temporary assignment of a holder of an employee card by a job agency to a different employer (user) to perform work
Act No. 206/2017 Coll., amending Act No. 435/2004 Coll., on Employment, as amended, and other related Acts, removed the prohibition of temporary assignment of holders of employee cards by a job agency to perform work for a user with effect as of July 29th, 2017.
Employee card can be issued or prolonged, if employer of foreign national is job agency which temporarily provides work of foreign national to user. But it is not possible that foreign national (employee card holder) changes the employer or works on next position at the other employer and this future employer is job agency. It does not matter, if it is employee allocated to work to user or if it is prime employee of job agency.
If foreign national works at the job agency, he/she can change job position (place of work, kind of work) or he/she can be employed to the next job position at the same job agency.
Attention should be also paid to the Government Regulation No 64/2009 Coll. setting out the occupations the job agency cannot temporarily assign, according to later regulations. In accordance with this § 64 of the Emloyment Act the Regulation provides that the job agency allowed to assign temporarily a foreign national only when the job requires full secondary education. This does not apply only in the case of occupations explicitly stated by the Regulation.
Employees of job agency, which are allocated to work to user, are obliged to submit extra document to their application. In this document there must be their name, surname, nationality, birthdate and birthplace, place of residence, kind of work, place of work at the user and name of the employer and employer´s registered office.
You can find form of this document here.
Quotas for acceptance of applications for staff cards at embassies & Programmes approved by the government to achieve economic benefits for the country
Quotas for acceptance of applications for staff cards at embassies & Programmes approved by the government to achieve economic benefits for the country
Information can be found on the Official We Portal for Foreigners.