Work Health Service (“WHS”) and legislative changes related thereto

Amendment to the Act No. 355/2007 Coll. on Protection, Support and Development of Public Health and on Amendment and Supplements to Certain Acts (“Public Health Act”)

On 01.08.2014, the Act No. 204/2014 Coll. on Amending and Supplementing of the Public Health Act entered into effect.

The most significant changes brought by the aforementioned amendment of Public Health Act are undoubtedly the transfer of the legislation regulating the WHS into one legal act, namely the Public Health Act, and the introduction of an obligation for employers to establish a WHS for all its employees.