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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Law of Social Security

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 119-0306/01
Abbreviation PUSZ
Course title Law of Social Security
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Law
Course coordinator JUDr. Jana Martiníková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Right to Employment
- term
- legal relations among participants according to Employment Act
- Financial scheme as for job applicants
2. Legal regulation of employment active policy
- requalification
- socially purposeful jobs and publicly beneficial works
- support of employing the handicapped
3. Social welfare system
- function, forms, institutional protection
- insurance payers
- factors deciding insurance´s amount
- insurance payment, limitation, overcharges, penalties
4. Sickness insurance
- legal regulations
- sickness insurance ´s amount determination
- protection period
5. Sickness insurance and its assessments
- sickness
- support when taking card of family member
- compensatory allowance within pregnancy and maternity
- financial support within maternity
6. Pension insurance
- legal regulations
- pension insurance ´s amount determination
- insurance period, backup time, exempt periods
- pensions calculation, pension concourse
7. Pension insurance - assessments
- old-age pension, full invalid pension, partly invalid pension
- widow´s pension, orphans annuity
8. Supplementary insurance
- legal regulation, participants
- entitlements of supplementary insurance
9. State social support
- legal regulation
- personal amount of state social support
- family, deciding incomes, minimum wage, unprovided children
10. State social support – tested allowances
- allowance for child, social allowance, transport allowance, living allowance
11. State social support – untested allowances
- pandering allowance, parential allowance, foster care allowances, birth grant, death grant
12. Social help
- legal regulation, social necessity
13. Social help - types
- family and children care, the handicapped care, elderly care, care of inhabitants needed special help, care of inhabitants socially unadapted
14. Public medical insurance
- characteristics, personal and material scope of medical care
- insurance payers insures, medical insurances
- deciding factors to calculate insurance amount

Literature

Francis R. Kessler, S. Günter Nagel. Social Security Law, Council of Europe. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2010. EAN: 9789041133908.

Advised literature

Thüsing, Gregor. European Labour Law. Praha: C. H. Beck, 2013. EAN 9783848702978.
Francis R. Kessler, S. Günter Nagel. Social Security Law, Council of Europe. Praha: Wolters Kluwer, 2010. EAN: 9789041133908.