1. Compensation of income
2. Sickness benefits provided by the Social Insurance Company
3. Other reporting obligations of the employer

Compensation of income

Compensation of employee income  is for the first 10 days of sickness absence provided by the employer.

The maximum amount of employee income compensation is (valid from 1st January 2017):

• 43.55 EUR for the first three days of sickness absence,
• 223.54 EUR for another seven days of sickness absence. 

Sickness benefits provided by the Social Insurance Company

After ten days, the employee's entitlement to income compensation ceases and and the employee is entitled to sickness benefits provided by the Social Insurance Company.

After ten days of employee sickness absence, the employer has the obligation to notify the Social Insurance Company about it. This means that the employer is obliged, within three days after the tenth day of the sickness absence, to transfer to the branch of the Social Insurance Company a form announcing the employee's incapacity for work (Part II Confirmation of Invalidity - Request for Sickness Insurance). The form is issued by the attending physician.

Other reporting obligations of the employer

• Reporting of termination of sickness absence - upon termination of sickness absence of the employee, the attending physician shall report it to the employer and to the branch of the Social Insurance Company (Part IV Confirmations of Invalidity). Employee shall immediately hand over the form to the employer.

• Employer's reporting obligation towards the health insurance company (in case of the change of the payer of the insurance due to employee's reimbursement of his income, sickness benefit or if the employee has lost entitlement to sickness benefits etc.)