Employee's Health Incapacity to Work and Legal Nature of Medical Certificates Abstract This thesis is named "Employee's Health Incapacity to Work and Legal Nature of Medical Certificates." Employee's health incapacity to work has significant consequences for the master-servant relationship and these consequences are visible in the areas of creation, modification and termination of the master-servant relationship. This incapacity can also have various causes and every cause can have different labour-law consequences. Employee's health incapacity can, however, be declared only by a medical certificate or by a decision of an administrative authority, which reviews the medical certificate. Only on the basis of the above mentioned medical certificate or decision of an administrative authority which reviews the medical certificate are the employer and employee entitled to actions predicted by legislation. In recent years, there has been a change in how medical certificates are viewed upon in terms of their legal nature. Today, medical certificates are not considered as legally binding, but only as a non-binding opinion. The objective of this thesis is to describe and analyse the legal regulation of medical certificates, with extra attention being paid to the legal nature of those certificates. The goal is also to...

The article focuses on a new problem that requires an adequate legal answer that respects the rights of the persons with disabilities: are all persons with disabilities incapacitated for work? This question tries to make a critical assessment of the traditional systems of social security that assumed that any disability led to the end of the productive life. However, that differs completely from the view of the social model of disability that states that disability comes from the social barriers and not from the persons. If disability is not the same as incapacity to work, how and when should this latter figure be applied? The existence of both figures requires us to differentiate them. The hypothesis is that these figures are different but may coexist at the same time. / El presente artículo intentará enfocarse en una problemática que comienza a presentarse en la realidad y que requiere una respuesta jurídica adecuada y respetuosa de los derechos de las personas con discapacidad: ¿todas las personas con discapacidad tienen incapacidad para el trabajo? Esta pregunta busca realizar una valoración crítica de los tradicionales sistemas de seguridad social que entendieron que toda discapacidad llevaba al fin de la vida productiva. No obstante, esto confronta directamente los postulados del modelo social de la discapacidad que proclaman que las imposibilidades de las personas con discapacidad provienen de barreras sociales y no de las personas. Si la discapacidad no equivale a la incapacidad, ¿cómo debe entenderse y aplicarse dicha figura? La existencia de ambas figuras nos reta a plantear cuáles son las diferencias y similitudes entre ambas. Esta investigación se guía bajo la hipótesis de que ambos términos denotan situaciones distintas aunque estas pueden presentarse de manera simultánea.

The diploma thesis deals with the topic of insurance system in the Czech Republic and its transformations since 2009. Analysis of social and economic effect that was brought by alternation in legislation in code 187 / 2006 has become the objective of this work. The reasons for issuing the legislation alternation were struggles to change negative trends in sick insurance, to avoid unjustified costs and to ensure financial stability of the system. The introduction mentions theoretical concepts concerning the topic of the work and methods and procedures used while composing this diploma thesis. The area of the sick insurance is characterized by basic principles, terms and conditions in claim system and brief history of social protection institute in Czech Republic is also covered. The empiric part describes individual changes as a part of public finance reform. Specific impact on selected actors was subsequently analyzed. Three possible sceneries of resolving sick insurance issue are designed in the final part of the work.