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The accelerating spread of Covid-19 has altered the Czech Republic as we know it: from closed restaurants to empty streets and mandatory wearing of face masks. Yet, the changing job market remains the most worrisome, terrifying, and frightening niche impacted by the containment measures. Things get even worse when you are an expat, who works on a temporary contract, freelancer, or goes to regularly visit one’s family. Here are the 5 ways in which you, as a Czech professional, may be affected by the new conditions.
Even though many industries were severely hit, employees can still expect to receive their full salaries. However, if the employer simply cannot provide the team with enough work (for example, as in the case with the conference production companies and travel agencies), then employees enter the dark zone of “partial unemployment”. That simply means that one’s working hours were significantly reduced due to the lack of tasks. In that scenario, an employee should still receive no less than 60% of his regular wage. Shall the employer fail to compensate an employee or owe him any debts, an employee is entitled to request a partial compensation at the Labour Office.
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Despite the efforts made by the Czech Republic to induce the companies to keep 100% of their employees, about 25% of the Czech companies fired some of their staff members. Unfortunately, when it comes to cutting staff, foreigners are more at risk, generally because they are the ones most likely to take on the lower level jobs which often don’t require a contract. Since foreigners occupy positions in factories, hospitality services and tourism, where cuts are expected, they are more likely to lose a job or be subjected to partial unemployment. However, it is worth looking into the areas, which do need additional workforce – including food delivery services, construction and IT.
While you might think that the pandemic killed the job market and searching for a job now is a dead-end, it is not exactly true. Although the overall number of open vacancies had decreased, a few markets are on the rise. Those include the online education industry, IT, e-commerce firms, video conferences, food delivery and, according to some sources, the construction and farming businesses. That is due to the higher demand in the local workforce as a result of the decreasing mobility of foreign employees. All of these industries either had a stable number of open positions or saw a gradual increase in them. Unfortunately, those who were planning on pursuing a career in the worst-hit industries – including tourism, hospitality business and aviation – should probably wait till the restrictions completely ease in the majority of the countries.
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