Health insurance
and Social Insurance 

• Health Insurance Card

Detailed information about health insurance and healthcare services can be found on the SWC website.

The HR Department of the Faculty fulfils the employer’s obligation to register the employee with the relevant health insurance company within 8 days of the start of employment.
If it is their first registration in Czech Republic, the insurance company then assigns the employee a personal insurance identification number, which is added to the employee’s personal record in the university information systems. If needed, the employee can find their assigned number here.

Within a few days or weeks, the health insurance card is delivered to the Faculty. The HR division forwards the card to the secretary of the respective department, where the employee can collect it.
Presenting this card at a medical facility ensures full access to public healthcare services.

Assignment of a Czech personal identification number (rodné číslo) must be reported to the Personnel Department of the HR Division.

• Social insurance

Every employee in the Czech Republic is a participant in the social security system. Social insurance is automatically deducted from the salary of employees. Social deductions are 5.5% of wages and 25% that the employer pays from the employee’s gross wages, of which 21.5% goes to pension insurance, 2.3% to sickness insurance, and 1.2% to the state employment policy. More informations can be found on the SWC website .

A detailed manual of the Czech social security system issued by the European Commission can be found here.