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The effect of the new legal regulations of the temporary job disability and its trend in the South Bohemia
SALVOVÁ, Jana
The Public Sickness Insurance Act (Act no. 187/2006 Coll.) which replaced the existing fragmented law regulations governing the subsystem of the public sickness insurance regime in the Czech Republic became effective as of 1 January 2009. The new law regulations in the field of public sickness insurance was expected to bring, among other aspects, a higher motivation of employees and employers for reduction of the events of unjustified temporary work incapacity. The main aim of the Bachelor{\crq}s Dissertation was to find out whether the new law regulation fulfilled the intents and whether the rate of temporary work incapacity of employees decreased and whether the average duration of temporary work incapacity in the Region of South Bohemia dropped in comparison with the situation before 1 January 2009. While drawing up the Bachelor{\crq}s Dissertation, the author used a quantitative research and statistical data analysis. It implied from the results found that the hypothesis ``The number of temporary work incapacities in the Region of South Bohemia dropped in comparison with the situation before 1 January 2009{\crqq} was confirmed. The fulfilment of the hypothesis is correlated with the legislator{\crq}s intent in this area because its fulfilment was intended in the objectives of the new law regulations. The implementation of the new Public Sickness Insurance Act led to a significant reduction of the number of cases of temporary work incapacity. On the basis of the analysis of the data acquired it was proven that the time of duration of one temporary work incapacity was extended in all districts of the Region of South Bohemia. The hypothesis ``The average time of temporary work incapacity in the Region of South Bohemia dropped in comparison with the situation before 1 January 2009{\crqq} was not confirmed. The results of the Dissertation indicate that the adoption of the new law regulation system of public sickness insurance led to the system stabilisation, elimination of undesired trends in the sickness insurance system, limitation of misuse of benefits, involvement of treating physicians and employers in the reduction of the number of cases of temporary work incapacity. The implementation of the new law regulations managed to achieve this objective. Therefore the results found can be used by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs as a certain form of feedback relating to implementation of the new law regulation of the public sickness benefit insurance system and the professional public.

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