Czechia: staff sickness and training

“Law” is a binding rule. “Official guidance” is not law, but inspectors expect it. “Chef Hygiene default” is a value the app checks against where no rule gives a number.

• LawThere is no food hygiene certificate, set hours or renewal for kitchen staff. Anyone in contact with food needs the knowledge to protect public health (Act 258/2000, § 19). The hygiene authority may test them.
• LawIf the authority tests someone and finds the knowledge missing, that person may not work until passing an oral exam.
• LawThe health card (zdravotní průkaz) ended on 1 July 2023. Medical checks are needed only where a decree or the authority orders them.
• LawStaff with a disease food can carry, infected wounds, skin infections or diarrhoea must not handle food and must report it at once (EU Regulation 852/2004, annex II chapter VIII).