Registering with the Labour Office and unemployment benefit

What this depends on

You'll need to know this about your plan

• How did your last job end?
• Do you have at least 12 months of pension insurance in the last 2 years (employment, self-employment, or substitute periods)?Add up all your jobs and gainful activities from the last 2 years before registering with the Labour Office: together they just need to reach 12 months.Only asked in some cases
• How old are you?Only asked in some cases

Possible outcomes

How this can turn out

• You're not entitled to benefit

  If your employer ended your relationship in the last 6 months due to a gross breach of duties, you're not entitled to unemployment benefit. It's still worth registering.

  Labour Office of the Czech Republic3 working days from the job ending, to register
  • My employer dismissed me for a gross breach of duties
  Open this result
• You don't meet the insurance period

  Without 12 months of pension insurance in the last 2 years, no entitlement to unemployment benefit arises. It's still worth registering as a jobseeker.

  Labour Office of the Czech Republic3 working days from the job ending, to register
  • Notice from the employer, or a fixed-term contract ending
  • No, or I don't know
  Open this result
• You're entitled to benefit for 5 months

  You're entitled to unemployment benefit. The support period up to age 52 is 5 months, the first 2 months you get 80% of average earnings, the next 2 months 50%, and the last month 40%.

  Labour Office of the Czech Republic3 working days from the job ending, for the benefit to be awarded retroactively
  • Notice from the employer, or a fixed-term contract ending
  • Yes, I do
  • 51 years
  Open this result
• You're entitled to benefit for 8 months

  You're entitled to unemployment benefit. The support period from over 52 to 57 years old is 8 months, the first 3 months you get 80% of average earnings, the next 3 months 50%, and the remaining 2 months 40%.

  Labour Office of the Czech Republic3 working days from the job ending, for the benefit to be awarded retroactively
  • Notice from the employer, or a fixed-term contract ending
  • Yes, I do
  • 53 years
  Open this result
• You're entitled to benefit for 11 months

  You're entitled to unemployment benefit. The support period over 57 years old is 11 months, the first 3 months you get 80% of average earnings, the next 3 months 50%, and the remaining 5 months 40%.

  Labour Office of the Czech Republic3 working days from the job ending, for the benefit to be awarded retroactively
  • Notice from the employer, or a fixed-term contract ending
  • Yes, I do
  • 58 years
  Open this result

Where this comes from

Primary sources, not a paraphrase