Companies that employ workers in jobs classified as risk group 3 will have to make compulsory contributions to their future pensions. Following the already approved pension reform, this was proposed by a group of coalition MPs in a new law, and the government of Petro Fiala supported this proposal at a meeting on Wednesday 29 January 2025.
"Pension reform is absolutely essential. Previous governments have only talked about it but have not had the courage to do it. Our government has introduced it, and as well as guaranteeing that today's 30- and 40-somethings will have decent pensions, it also means that it helps existing pensioners. Working pensioners, for example, have not paid National Insurance since January this year, which increases their net pay. The minimum pension is rising significantly, almost doubling to CZK 9,300 in 2026, and there will be greater appreciation of care for loved ones and children, for example." reminded Prime Minister Petr Fiala.
The pension reform also provides for an advantage for employees working in the most risky professions, who will be able to retire earlier. New Act on the compulsory contribution to old-age savings products, prepared by a group of MPs from the parties of the ruling coalition, complements it by introducing an obligation for employers to contribute to the pension or supplementary pension savings of employees performing hazardous work classified as category 3 work. "This means that these employees will be able to fund their living needs in the years before retirement age in the form of a 'pre-retirement pension'." stated the Prime Minister. The Government therefore agreed to the MP's proposal. Details can be found in press release of the Ministry of Finance.
The Government also adopted a favourable opinion on another proposal by the MPs on the amendment to the Act on the Promotion of Sport. The amendment will allow the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs to establish a departmental sports centre focused on supporting top athletes with disabilities. Similar peak sport centres already exist at the Ministries of the Interior, Defence and Education, Youth and Sports.
"This expansion is also important because there are approximately 5300 registered athletes with disabilities in the Czech Republic. The best of these athletes have achieved great results at the Paralympic Games and other competitions for disabled athletes and have not yet had support comparable to that of national athletes without disabilities. This proposal, which the Government has supported, is to remedy that." said Prime Minister Fiala.
The government has decided on extension of the national sanctions list. It has inscribed the names of three other officials of the Georgian Ministry of the Interior who have been implicated in serious human rights violations. Specifically, their role in the brutal suppression of protests in Georgia during the past year. This is the first listing on the national sanctions list on the grounds of human rights violations; previous listings were related to support for Russian aggression against Ukraine. Read more in press release of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The cabinet also approved draft amendment to the Act on the organisation and implementation of social security, which expands the list of former leading officials of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia whose retirement pensions were reduced by CZK 300 for each year they held office in the top apparatus of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The list drawn up by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes would also include, according to this proposal, persons who had served in specific departments within the Communist Party leadership or in certain regional structures, and certain senior officials from the ranks of the security forces, i.e. the SNB, the StB, the Border Guard and the People's Militia.
The government also approved the strategy for the development of the Fire Brigade of the Czech Republic until 2030. It is the first long-term conceptual material that covers all competencies and activities performed by the Fire and Rescue Service of the Czech Republic and sets out three priority areas that the state wants to focus on in the development of the Service in the coming years so that its equipment and staffing correspond to the complexity, spectrum and number of tasks to be performed by the Fire and Rescue Service in the coming years. The strategy speaks, for example, of the necessity to replenish the numbers of the Corps, to equip it with additional necessary modern equipment and to make the training of its members more effective and intensive.
The cabinet also nominated Deputy Finance Minister Mark Mora as as Vice President of the European Investment Bank. The Czech Republic is entitled to fill this position as part of the agreed rotation of staff within its group of countries from 1 October 2025 for a four-year term. The government's nomination must be discussed by the European Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and can then be finally approved by the government. More in press release of the Ministry of Finance.
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