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03/05/2009
The cabinet has approved an amendment to the Czech Republic’s insolvency law which would help employees of firms which go bankrupt. Under the amendment, the Czech state would pay up to three months wages to those who find themselves unemployed when the business they work for goes bust. The proposed amendment also allots money to firms on the brink of bankruptcy, in a bid to help them restructure instead of having to close. According to Labour and Social Affairs Minister Petr Nečas, the cabinet will now push for the amendment to be passed though the Lower House and Senate as soon as possible. He believes that the change could be written into law by as soon as April.
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03/05/2009
A Třebíč hospital in which two newborn babies were accidentally swapped is appealing the amount of damages it had to pay the families involved. A Brno court ruled in January that Libor Broža and his partner Jaroslava Trojanová should receive 1.2 million crowns (54,500 USD) from the hospital, while Jaroslava and Jan Čermák should receive 2.1 million crowns (95,200 USD) in damages. The sum was less than the families had requested, but following the verdict, both sets of partners said they would not pursue the case any further, as they now wanted to get on with their lives. The families involved say they are surprised by the hospital’s decision to appeal.
Over a year ago it was discovered that two baby girls had been mixed up at birth and had been living with the wrong families for over nine months. The girls were swapped back shortly before their first birthdays.
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03/05/2009
The president of the Czech Medical Chamber, Milan Kubek, has written to the country’s female doctors, saying that, contrary to stories in the media, he had not criticised their work. Mr Kubek was reported to have told the lower house’s health committee that women’s work was inferior to that of men and that ‘feminisation’ was the second biggest cause of the crisis in the health care system. But in the letter sent on Wednesday he told his female colleagues that he had only criticised the shortcomings of doctors who threaten the standard of health care in the Czech Republic. He said he had also just pointed out that some branches of medicine were more attractive to women.
Meanwhile, the Association of Contract Physicians has called on Mr Kubek to resign over the matter. In a statement, they said they were shocked by the medical chamber head’s comments about female doctors, and demanded that he apologise.
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03/05/2009
The newspaper Právo has demanded an apology from the head of the opposition Social Democrats, Jiří Paroubek, who, it says raised false alarm about the state of the daily’s finances. The firm which owns Právo - Borgis - said that comments Mr Paroubek made about the poor financial state of the paper in an open letter to its editor-in-chief were untruthful and damaged the newspaper’s reputation. Právo responded to Mr Paroubek’s claims by saying that 2008 had been the best year, in financial terms, in the newspaper’s history. The demand for an apology follows claims made by Právo’s editor-in-chief, Zdeněk Porybný, on Wednesday that he was being pressurised by Mr Paroubek to portray the Social Democrats in a favourable light. The left-leaning Právo grew out of the former communist newspaper Rudé Právo.
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03/05/2009
A Czech skier has been fined CZK 280,000 for causing an avalanche in the Austrian Alps, Lidové noviny reported. The man is accused of starting an avalanche near the mountain resort of Kitzsteinhorn on Saturday, when he skied in an area where an avalanche warning was in place. Nobody was hurt but the local rescue service had to search the area in case anybody was caught in the snowslide.
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03/05/2009
Prague’s flood defence system was brought into operation on Thursday, amidst warnings of rising water levels across the country’s rivers. Flood gates on the outskirts of the capital were closed, blocking river traffic from entering into the metropolis. As snow melts in Moravia and eastern Bohemia, and with 15 mm of rain forecast for Friday, meteorologists warned of the possibility of floods in the capital going into the weekend. River traffic within the capital itself has not been disrupted, but many boats moored along the Vltava have been ordered to go to the harbour in Holešovice. Local authorities have said that they are taking precautions and that the situation as yet does not look too dangerous.
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03/04/2009
Vietnamese citizens have asked to be allowed to remain in the Czech Republic if they lose their jobs. At a meeting with Interior Ministry officials, leaders of the Vietnamese community said they were capable of supporting one another in the event of being laid off, arguing that possible deportation was too heavy-handed a measure on the part of the Czech authorities. The Vietnamese leaders said their compatriots would prefer to stay in the Czech Republic and do community service, for instance.
The Czech government recently launched a scheme to give laid-off workers from non-EU states EUR 500 and a ticket home. So far around 550 people – most of them from Mongolia – have signed up for the programme, which is open to 2,000 foreigners in its first phase. Only 20 or 25 people from Vietnam have taken up the offer.
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03/04/2009
A Vietnamese citizen named Le Kim Thanh, who briefly went on hunger strike in protest at a deportation order, is to be expelled from the country in the next few weeks, a spokesperson for the Czech police said on Wednesday. The man lost his right to remain in the Czech Republic when he lost his job and his case has received a good deal of attention. While the human rights minister, Michael Kocáb, said Le Kim Thanh should be allowed to stay in the country, the minister of the interior, Ivan Langer, said he had broken Czech law and had to go. His lawyer is appealing the expulsion order.
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03/04/2009
The Czech police have deported 12 people after checking the papers of 4,300 foreigners in operations in a number of cities on Tuesday. They registered nearly 300 contraventions of the country’s law on foreigners and levied fines of nearly CZK 200,000, a spokesperson said. Police also handed out flyers with information about the government’s voluntary repatriation scheme.
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03/04/2009
The Supreme Administrative Court has rejected a government proposal to ban the Workers’ Party. The government says the small far-right grouping contains extremists and is attempting to subvert democracy. However, the court said the government had failed to prove claims of a connection with the neo-Nazi group National Resistance, or that the Workers’ Party was trying to change the political system by violent means.
The Workers’ Party came to national attention last year when members fought with police after being prevented from marching on a largely Romany district in the town of Litvínov in north Bohemia.
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