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On 1 January 2020, the Czech Social Security Administration launched the live operation of the eNeschopenka electronic workers compensation system. The goal of this system is to simplify the exchange of information between sick/insured persons, doctors, employers and the Czech Social Security Administration. Insured employees will no longer need to submit paper documents to their employers; however, employees will continue to keep certificates of a person unable to work in a paper form. Salary compensations and sickness benefits will be paid to employees automatically.

No paper confirmation of a temporary incapacity for work for employers shall be issued anymore. However, if they are sick, insured employees continue to be obliged to promptly inform their employers about their temporary incapacity for work (for example by phone or e-mail). Also, employers will be able to verify or download data about the temporary incapacities for work among their employees; furthermore, the Czech Social Security Administration will send notifications upon request.

After 14 days of the temporary incapacity for work, employers are obliged to provide the Czech Social Security Administration with an attachment to the application for the benefit, in an electronic form. The application annex will now include details about the account to which the salary or compensation is paid to the insured employee. At the end of the temporary incapacity for work, employers are obliged to submit a report containing data needed for the payment of the last part of the sickness benefit.

All confirmations of the incapacity for work issued before 31 December 2019 using the existing forms will continue to be processed as before, using paper forms submitted to the employer and then to the competent social security authority.