Since last April, the sick MP has received approximately 1.8 million crowns in compensation, Novinky reported this week.
“It’s definitely not right. I don’t think it’s appropriate, but I don’t see the possibility of discussing it with MP Bašta, and I think it wouldn’t be ethically correct,” Radim Fiala (SPD) said in a discussion on CT.
He emphasized that the deputy is seriously ill. He was reacting to the rebuke of Petr Hladík, minister for the KDU-ČSL, to the fact that the SPD movement should appoint someone else from the deputies to the Standing Commission for Controlling the Activities of the Security Information Service (BIS) for Basta.
The ill Bašta has not been in the House of Representatives for over a year. He received almost 1.8 million in compensation
Homemade
Indeed, Fiala said in the debate that he did not believe the BIS information. The commission has nine members, one of whom is nominated by the SPD.
“Of course, we are discussing it (the replacement), but it is not that simple, because Jaroslav Bašta is very seriously ill,” the SPD vice-chairman emphasized.
The news this week pointed out that although not much is known about the health of the former presidential candidate, he is receiving all the allowances and the parliamentary salary.
The last time Bašta was actively involved in voting in the House of Representatives was on March 24, 2023, since then he has not been officially at work.
When an employee gets sick
Ordinary employees are paid wage compensation by the employer during the first 14 days of temporary incapacity, from the 15th day they are entitled to sick leave paid by the Czech Social Security Administration
The attending physician decides on the occurrence of temporary incapacity for work by issuing a decision on temporary incapacity for work (so-called eDisability).
During the first two weeks of illness, the employer pays a wage compensation that represents 60 percent of the reduced average hourly earnings. A sick employee receives it only for working days, or holidays, if they fall on a working day.
If a person is unable to work even after two weeks have passed, he is paid sick leave. Its amount is set at 60 percent of the reduced daily assessment base per calendar day until the 30th day of the incapacity for work, then it increases to 66 percent between the 31st and 60th day, and from the 61st day to 72 percent of the reduced daily assessment base for calendar day.