Hiring contractors in Czech Republic


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General information, not legal or tax advice — confirm with a local adviser before you act.
A foreign company can buy genuinely independent services in the Czech Republic under a civil or commercial contract. If the person works personally under the client's direction and in its name, assess direct employment or a qualifying employer of record instead. For independent work, 4dev.com's Contractor Platform works with contractors based in the Czech Republic.
Where the employee–contractor line runs in Czech Republic
The work itself determines whether a Czech contractor arrangement amounts to dependent work, known when concealed as švarcsystém. The Ministry of Labour's guidance applies the Labour Code test to the working arrangement; a contract title, trade licence or invoice cannot settle it.
The core signs are personal performance in a relationship of subordination, in the employer’s name and under its instructions. The practical setting matters too: dependent work is done for remuneration, at the employer’s cost and responsibility, during working time at its workplace or another agreed place. A client that assigns and directs an individual’s day-to-day work, bears the operating responsibility and presents that work as its own is therefore on a different route from a client buying an independently delivered service.
In an independent engagement, the supplier ordinarily controls how, when and with what means it produces an agreed deliverable, bears its own business responsibility and can serve more than one client. These examples support independence; they are neither a statutory checklist nor a safe harbour. Having one client does not settle status either way.
"whether they have only one customer, how economically dependent they are on them, how much they have to obey them."
— Karel Šimka, President, Czech Supreme Administrative Court, KPMG Czech Republic interview, 1 December 2025
Šimka's point concerns evidence, not a separate legal test. In a Czech IT case, practitioners examined whether the supplier could refuse assignments, control capacity, work outside the client's team and arrange absence cover, as well as who bore responsibility to clients. JIRA records, an hourly rate or a long project did not decide status on their own.

Where contractor status breaks
Contractor status breaks when the actual arrangement amounts to dependent work; insurance and VAT thresholds change the contractor’s own administration, but neither converts a person into an employee. Review the actual delivery model first, then apply the separate social-insurance and tax rules that follow from the contractor’s business status.
| Personal work under the client’s instructions, in its name and within a subordinate arrangement | Review the facts as dependent work, including whose cost, responsibility, working time and place govern the work; a disguised arrangement is illegal employment and can expose the business and individual to the statutory penalties set out later. | MPSV, švarcsystém; SÚIP, illegal work |
| One client, or one long-running assignment | Review autonomy, control of the work and commercial responsibility. Czech law sets no numerical single-client safe harbour, and one client does not automatically decide status. | MPSV, švarcsystém |
| 2026 main OSVČ activity | The contractor’s minimum social-insurance advance changed from CZK 5,720 through June to CZK 5,005 from July; this is an insurance obligation, not an employment test. | ČSSZ, OSVČ advances |
| Eligible secondary OSVČ activity reaches a CZK 117,521 annual tax base | Check compulsory pension-insurance participation and the applicable advance; the stated 2026 minimum advance for eligible secondary activity is CZK 1,574 a month. | ČSSZ, 2026 social data |
| Domestic calendar-year turnover exceeds CZK 2 million or CZK 2,536,500 | The first threshold normally brings VAT-payer status from the following 1 January, while the higher threshold brings it from the next day; apply within 10 working days after crossing a limit. These domestic-turnover rules do not classify the service provider as an employee. | Financial Administration, VAT-registration changes |
How a Czech contractor registers
An independent Czech contractor normally starts as an OSVČ by notifying the trade office and completing related registrations. Those filings do not decide whether the work for a particular client is independent. The Jednotný registrační formulář (JRF) can combine filings for the trade licensing office, social security administration and health insurer.
The first trade notification costs CZK 1,000 through the ordinary route or CZK 800 electronically. Where the notification meets the statutory conditions, the trade office records it and issues an extract within five working days. Since 1 January 2024, an individual starting business generally does not make a separate personal-income-tax registration; the OSVČ must still notify the health insurer within eight days of starting or ending the earning activity.
Main and secondary OSVČ activity
For main activity, the 2026 minimum social-insurance advance was CZK 5,720 through June and CZK 5,005 from July; the 2026 minimum health-insurance advance is CZK 3,306 a month from 1 January. For secondary activity, compulsory pension insurance depends on an annual tax base of CZK 117,521, and the 2026 minimum pension advance for eligible secondary activity is CZK 1,574 a month. Where independent activity is secondary alongside employment and the employment health contribution meets the employee minimum, no OSVČ minimum health base or monthly health advances apply, although annual contributions remain due.
Two start rules apply to different eligible OSVČ. A person beginning main activity after 20 years without it has a 2026 minimum social advance of CZK 3,575 in the start year and the next two calendar years. An OSVČ who starts or restarts after five years without activity is exempt from social-insurance advances in the start calendar year and the next one, but still owes final insurance after the annual income-and-expense report.
Income tax and paušální daň
Taxable self-employment income is subject to 15% tax up to 36 times the average wage and 23% on the excess. The expense allowance depends on the activity: trade income may use 60%, capped at CZK 1.2 million, while other independent activity may use 40%, capped at CZK 800,000. These are the contractor’s tax choices and filings, not charges added to the client’s engagement.
The paušální daň (flat-tax regime) is available only to eligible OSVČ who are not VAT payers; being registered only as an identified person is an exception. Band I has three alternative prior-year revenue routes: up to CZK 1 million generally; up to CZK 1.5 million where at least 75% of income qualifies for an 80% or 60% expense allowance; or up to CZK 2 million where at least 75% qualifies for the 80% allowance. From July 2026, Band I’s monthly advance is CZK 9,162, retroactive to January 2026; the January–June overpayment is CZK 4,932, which the contractor may offset against a later advance or seek back after the tax year.
Czech VAT has two domestic triggers and a separate cross-border route
Czech VAT status follows two domestic calendar-year turnover triggers with different effective dates; identified-person registration is a separate, transaction-specific cross-border route. The turnover test is not a rolling 12-month calculation, and it does not determine whether the service relationship is independent.
Start by checking whether turnover in the prior calendar year already made the business a VAT payer from the following 1 January. Only then assess the current calendar year’s qualifying domestic turnover; a foreign-client invoice does not automatically enter that turnover, because the place and type of supply still matter.

| Domestic calendar-year turnover exceeds CZK 2 million but does not exceed CZK 2,536,500 | VAT-payer status normally begins on the following 1 January; the business may elect an earlier next-day start. Apply for registration within 10 working days after exceeding the limit. | Financial Administration, VAT-registration changes |
| Domestic calendar-year turnover exceeds CZK 2,536,500 | VAT-payer status begins on the following day. Apply for registration within 10 working days after exceeding the limit. | Financial Administration, VAT-registration changes |
The Financial Administration's VAT registration guidance sets out both limits and the application deadline.

An identified person is not automatically a VAT payer
A Czech non-VAT payer can become an identified person when it receives a service with a Czech domestic place of supply from a non-established taxable person, or when it provides a general-rule service with a place of supply in another EU member state. That status is not inferred from every foreign service and does not by itself make the business a VAT payer; it is also the limited exception to the flat-tax regime’s VAT-payer exclusion.
For a qualifying service provided to another EU member state, the identified person reports the supply in a recapitulative statement within 25 days after the end of the relevant calendar month. The contractor must check the place and type of supply before choosing a VAT document and reporting route.

The service contract: what must be in it
A Czech service contract should record a genuinely independent deliverable, the agreed price and acceptance, the party that directs the means of work, the rights to the output and the exit process. Those are practical clauses for the parties to settle; the contract’s title alone does not make the relationship independent.
Deliverables, control and rights
Define the task, concrete deliverables, acceptance record and price, then state who controls the process and bears the relevant operating means and responsibility. For a contract for work, the Civil Code places performance at the contractor’s own cost and risk, with the client accepting the work and paying the price; that default belongs to that contract type and should not be treated as a universal rule for every services agreement.
Digital content may be protected by copyright, so the agreement should specify the licence or other agreed IP scope rather than assuming a broad transfer. Where a work is protected by industrial or other intellectual-property rights, the contractor is presumed to provide it for the purpose arising from the contract; broader usage rights need express wording.
Ending the contract
Set the notice route, outstanding deliverables, acceptance, access and handover in the agreement. A contract may be ended by notice where the parties have agreed it or the law allows it; an indefinite contract for continuous or repeated activity has a narrower statutory default that permits termination at a calendar-quarter end with at least three months’ notice. That is not a universal contractor notice period and is different from the rules for ending employment, which are covered in the Czech employment guide.
What the contractor must document before an invoice is payable
The record starts with the agreed deliverable and its acceptance, then the contractor issues the commercial document required by the agreement; a VAT tax document is required only when the supplier, transaction and place-of-supply conditions make it so. Do not use one universal freelancer template for both steps.
The entrepreneur’s business document must show its name and seat, the relevant registry or other evidence entry, and any assigned identifying number. Czech VAT law uses the term daňový doklad (VAT tax document) and does not itself distinguish it from labels such as “invoice”; the commercial record and a VAT tax document therefore answer different questions.
Business document versus VAT tax document
A VAT payer generally issues a VAT tax document for a taxable supply to another taxable person or non-taxable legal person, subject to the statutory exception for specified exempt supplies. A taxable person also has a document duty for a qualifying business service whose place of supply is in another EU member state where the supplier has no seat or supplying establishment. The document duty therefore depends on the supplier and the supply, rather than the word “invoice.”
VAT-document fields and deadlines
A VAT tax document can be paper or electronic, but electronic use needs the recipient’s consent. A standard document identifies supplier and customer, their VAT IDs where assigned, the document number, scope and subject, issue and relevant supply or prepayment date, net unit price or discount, tax base, VAT rate and VAT amount in CZK. For the ordinary VAT route, it must be issued within 15 days after the duty to declare VAT or the supply arises.

The qualifying cross-border EU route uses a different clock: issue the VAT tax document within 15 days after the end of the calendar month in which the qualifying supply occurred. Where the customer accounts for VAT, the document must state “daň odvede zákazník”; the VAT rate and amount may then be omitted. That document deadline is separate from the identified person’s recapitulative statement, which is due within 25 days after month-end only for a qualifying outgoing service to another EU member state.
A simplified VAT tax document is available only where the total consideration is no more than CZK 10,000 and cannot be used where the customer must account for VAT. It may omit the customer’s identity and VAT ID, net unit price, tax base and VAT amount; where the VAT amount is omitted, it must show the total consideration.

How the money actually arrives in Czech Republic
For a domestic CZK transfer, the contractor gives the payer the Czech domestic account-number format; a Czech bank may also allow IBAN on a domestic instruction. For a transfer from another European country to a Czech account, the contractor should provide its IBAN.
For a qualifying cross-border euro transfer within the EU, a bank’s charge must match the charge it applies to its domestic CZK transfer. A bank may charge extra, or in some cases refuse the transfer, where the recipient’s IBAN is missing. This rule does not establish a universal cross-border charge or a delivery time for every route.
The agreement should state the currency, any conversion basis and how the parties allocate bank charges before the service is delivered. Those commercial terms concern the contractor’s agreed price for services.
Payment terms and late payment
The agreed contract date governs first; where a paid B2B service contract sets no different date, the price is due within 30 days after the later of invoice receipt or service delivery. If the parties agree an acceptance or verification step, the 30-day period starts from that acceptance or verification instead.
Keep the acceptance or verification record, service-delivery date and invoice receipt date together. They establish when the agreed due date, or the statutory 30-day fallback, starts and whether a late-payment remedy applies.
Parties may agree a B2B term longer than 60 days only where it is not grossly unfair to the creditor. A public-body arrangement has narrower conditions: a longer period must be justified by the nature of the obligation and cannot exceed 60 days.
If the parties have agreed a late-interest rate, that rate may govern. Otherwise, the annual statutory rate is the Czech National Bank’s two-week repo rate for the first day of the calendar half-year in which the delay began, plus 8 percentage points. The applicable numerical rate therefore cannot be calculated until the delay date is known; in an overdue commercial payment, the creditor may also claim a CZK 1,200 recovery-cost lump sum.
What breaks, and at which step
Check the work arrangement, OSVČ registration, VAT route, required document and due date in that order. A missing record has its own remedy and does not by itself determine employment status.
| Step | Who checks | What to compare | Correction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work allocation | Client and contractor | Actual direction, personal performance, working time and place, cost and responsibility against the agreed independent deliverable | If the facts point to dependent work, revisit the engagement route rather than relying on the contract label. |
| OSVČ setup and ongoing status | Contractor | Trade/JRF route, health-insurer notice, main or secondary activity and the conditions for advances | Complete the applicable registration or notice and recalculate the contractor’s own social and health duties. |
| VAT route | Contractor | Domestic calendar-year turnover against the two VAT-payer triggers, separately from qualifying cross-border identified-person cases | Establish the actual supply route, then make the required registration or reporting submission within its own deadline. |
| VAT document | Contractor | Supplier status, recipient, place of supply, recipient consent for an electronic document and the applicable 15-day issue clock | Use the tax-document format and deadline that fit the transaction; do not use a simplified document where the customer must account for VAT. |
| Acceptance and due date | Both parties | Agreed acceptance or verification record, invoice receipt, service-delivery date and any agreed due date | Rebuild the date chain before applying the 30-day fallback, contractual interest or statutory remedy. |
For IT work, use the assignment, capacity, team, absence-cover and responsibility questions above to review the actual work. JIRA or time records, an hourly rate and project length are not a case verdict. Registration and VAT-document errors have their own corrective routes; illegal-work consequences depend on the work arrangement.
What a mistake costs and who pays
These administrative fines apply to illegal work. Establish the actual working arrangement and identify who allowed or performed it before applying the amounts.
| Party | Risk | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Legal entity or business natural person that allows illegal work | Administrative offence of allowing illegal work | At least CZK 50,000 and up to CZK 10 million |
| Individual who performs illegal work | Administrative offence of performing illegal work | Up to CZK 100,000 |
A services-contract dispute, late invoice, VAT-document error or OSVČ filing failure has a separate legal basis. The contractor remains responsible for its own business, tax, insurance and VAT obligations under the applicable rules; a client’s responsibilities arise from its own role and the actual arrangement. Any contractual indemnity or allocation of loss depends on the agreement’s terms, not on a general rule that a contractor arrangement transfers liability or guarantees an outcome.
Models and when each fits
Genuinely independent delivery can use an OSVČ contract. If the client directs work as employment, it needs a direct employer or a qualifying employer-of-record arrangement. The actual contracting or employing party matters in each route.
| Model | Actual party | Best fit | Main condition to check |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct OSVČ services | The client contracts with the contractor’s own business | Independent deliverables | The actual work must not meet the dependent-work test. |
| Direct employment through a Czech company | The client’s Czech company employs the individual | Work directed and integrated as employment | The employer takes the employment route and its associated duties. |
| Contractor-of-Record category | The provider must be the actual contracting party with the contractor | A documented contractor arrangement requiring an intermediary contracting model | Confirm the provider’s contract role and the actual work; the model may reduce classification risk, but any liability allocation depends on its indemnification clause. |
| Employment through an EOR | The qualifying provider is the legal employer under its applicable Czech route | Genuine employment where a client does not employ directly | Check the provider’s legal structure and the actual employment arrangement. |
For employment rules, see the Czech employment guide; for the provider route, see the Czech EOR guide.
One Czech contractor versus ten
Assess each Czech contractor’s actual work separately. A group of ten is not automatically unlawful, and a single client does not settle anyone’s status. With more engagements, keep evidence for each one rather than a team-wide label.
For each contractor, keep a repeatable record that covers:
- the defined task, deliverable, acceptance point and the contractor’s control of the means of work;
- the actual working pattern, including whether the contractor can refuse work, control capacity and arrange cover, rather than only JIRA or time records;
- the contractor’s business identity and relevant VAT or identified-person status where assigned; and
- the commercial document, any applicable VAT tax document, the correct document deadline and the agreed due-date record.
Review each engagement as it changes. A contractor may begin with independent deliverables and later be directed or integrated differently; similarly, turnover, cross-border services or the type of tax document can change the contractor’s own administration without changing the employment classification. No statutory headcount threshold makes the tenth engagement a different legal category.
What changes for Czech contractors in 2026 and 2027
The 2026 advance changes affect OSVČ administration; a separate sales-recording law generally starts in 2027.
- Through 30 June 2026 / from 1 July 2026: the main-activity minimum social-insurance advance was CZK 5,720 through June and became CZK 5,005 from July. This is a minimum advance, not the final annual liability.
- From July 2026, retroactive to 1 January 2026: the Band I paušální daň monthly advance became CZK 9,162. The retroactive reduction created a CZK 4,932 overpayment for January–June, which an eligible contractor may offset against a later advance or seek back after the tax year.
- 1 January 2027: Act 180/2026 Sb., promulgated on 7 October 2026, generally takes effect and starts EET 2.0 sales recording. The Financial Administration describes contact payments and cash receipts as in scope, while a bank transfer paying an invoice remotely from a customer’s home or office is outside that contact-payment example. This is a business-receipt recording rule, not a general e-invoicing mandate; not every noncash transaction or bank transfer is outside scope.
Who works with contractors in Czech Republic
The entries cover contractor platforms, intermediaries, marketplaces, a directory and Czech invoicing tools. “Not published” means the cited vendor material does not establish that capability.
| Vendor | Model | Presence in Czech Republic | Contracts under local law | IP assignment | Local documents | Classification support |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4dev.com | Contractor platform | Czech Republic is listed in its contractor country list; entity status not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Deel | Contractor platform | Czech contractor engagement published; entity status not published | localized contracts are published | not published | tax-document collection is published | not published |
| Remote | Contractor platform and EOR | Czech contractor engagement published; entity status not published | not published | not published | not published | Czech contractor-status content is published |
| RemoFirst | EOR with contractor route | Czech country guide addresses a contractor route; entity status not published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Rivermate | EOR with contractor route | Czech contractor guide is published; entity status not published | not published | not published | not published | Czech OSVČ and genuine B2B relationship are discussed |
| Freelancer.com | Marketplace | Czech-language marketplace is published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Vyfakturuj.cz | Invoicing tool | Czech-language tool for sole traders and firms is published | not published | not published | invoices are published | not published |
| PDQ.cz | Invoicing tool | Czech company operator is published | not published | not published | invoices are published | not published |
| Na volné noze | Czech freelancer directory | Czech independent-professional directory is published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| Fakturoid | Invoicing tool | Czech-language tool for entrepreneurs is published | not published | not published | invoices are published | not published |
| iDoklad | Invoicing tool | Czech-language tool is published | not published | not published | documents are published | not published |
| SuperFaktura | Invoicing tool | Czech-language invoicing tool for entrepreneurs is published | not published | not published | invoices are published | not published |
| mPohoda | Invoicing tool | Czech-language tool for sole traders and firms is published | not published | not published | invoices are published | not published |
| Doklad.ai | Invoicing tool | tool for Czech firms and OSVČ is published | not published | not published | Czech tax-document fields are published | not published |
| Faktuo | Invoicing tool | Czech company tool for OSVČ and freelancers is published | not published | not published | invoices are published | not published |
| Taxorio | Invoicing and tax tool | Czech OSVČ tool is published | not published | not published | invoices are published | not published |
| OnlineFakturuj.cz | Invoicing tool | Czech tool for entrepreneurs and sole traders is published | not published | not published | invoices are published | not published |
| Dokkio | Invoicing and tax tool | tool for OSVČ and firms in Czechia is published | not published | not published | invoices are published | not published |
| freelancermap | Marketplace | Czech Republic freelancer directory is published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| CoolPeople Technology | IT contracting agency | Czech IT-contracting service is published | not published | not published | not published | not published |
| FakturaOnline.cz | Invoicing tool | Czech-language product and Czech market site are published | not published | not published | invoices are published | not published |
| Kasíruj | Invoicing and job-administration tool | Czech-language tool for OSVČ and freelancers is published | not published | not published | invoices are published | not published |
4dev.com
Its country list includes the Czech Republic, and its global Contractor Platform covers contractor operations for independent services there.
Deel
The Czech contractor page describes localized contracts and collection of tax documents.
Remote
Its Czechia page covers contractor management and discusses misclassification.
RemoFirst
Contractors appear alongside employment in its Czech country guide.
Rivermate
The Czech guide describes OSVČ status and the need for a genuine B2B relationship.
Freelancer.com
Buyers can search its Czech-language marketplace by freelancer location and time zone.
Vyfakturuj.cz
This Czech-language invoicing tool addresses sole traders and firms.
PDQ.cz
A Prague company operates this Czech invoicing system.
Na volné noze
More than 1,000 independent professionals appear in this Czech directory.
Fakturoid
Its Czech-language online invoicing is aimed at entrepreneurs.
iDoklad
The Czech-language tool says users can create documents without training.
SuperFaktura
Its Czech-language tool offers invoicing for entrepreneurs.
mPohoda
Sole traders, firms and accountants are the stated users of this Czech-language invoicing tool.
Doklad.ai
The tool addresses Czech firms and OSVČ and names local VAT and tax-document fields.
Faktuo
Online invoicing for OSVČ, freelancers and small firms comes from a Czech company operator.
Taxorio
Czech OSVČ can keep invoices, expenses and tax-return administration in the same tool.
OnlineFakturuj.cz
Entrepreneurs and sole traders are the audience for this Czech-language invoicing tool.
Dokkio
Its Czech OSVČ and firm tool covers invoices, data-box administration and taxes.
freelancermap
Its Czech Republic directory lists 692 freelancers, including profiles located in the country.
CoolPeople Technology
Its Czech IČO pool lists 150 IT candidates in locations including Prague and Mladá Boleslav.
FakturaOnline.cz
This Czech-language tool prepares invoices.
Kasíruj
The Czech application combines invoice and job administration for OSVČ and freelancers.
Questions people actually ask
Does a živnost licence make someone independent?
No. A živnost licence records the person’s ability to carry on a trade; it does not decide the employment-law character of a particular engagement. The practical test is the work as performed: subordination, personal work, work in the client’s name and under its instructions point to dependent work, regardless of the contract label.
Can a Czech OSVČ work for one client?
Yes, but one client is neither an automatic contractor status nor an automatic employment status. The official examples of independent work include using one’s own tools, controlling work process and time, and serving multiple clients; they are indicators, not statutory safe harbours. Review the whole arrangement, particularly the client’s actual control and whether the service is delivered in the client’s name.
What is the difference between main and secondary OSVČ activity?
The classification affects social and health-insurance duties, so the contractor should establish which conditions apply before using a minimum-advance figure. For 2026, a main-activity social-insurance minimum was CZK 5,720 through June and CZK 5,005 from July, while eligible secondary activity has a CZK 117,521 annual tax-base threshold for compulsory pension insurance and a CZK 1,574 monthly minimum advance. Where activity is secondary alongside employment and the employment contribution meets the employee minimum, the OSVČ minimum health base and monthly health advances do not apply, although annual contributions remain due.
When does an OSVČ become a Czech VAT payer?
Use qualifying domestic turnover for the calendar year, not a rolling 12-month test. When that turnover exceeds CZK 2 million but does not exceed CZK 2,536,500, payer status normally starts on the following 1 January, with an election for an earlier next-day start; when it exceeds CZK 2,536,500, status begins the following day. In either case, the registration application is due within 10 working days after the limit is exceeded.
What must an identified person do for an EU service?
An identified person is a Czech non-VAT payer in a defined cross-border VAT route, not a VAT payer by default. The route can arise when the business receives a service with a Czech domestic place of supply from a non-established taxable person, or provides a general-rule service with a place of supply in another EU member state. For the qualifying outgoing EU service, the recapitulative statement is due within 25 days after the end of that calendar month.
What should a contractor put on the invoice?
Start with the business-document requirements: the entrepreneur’s name and seat, the applicable registry or other evidence entry, and any assigned identifying number. A VAT tax document is conditional rather than universal; where it is required, the standard set includes the supplier and customer, VAT IDs where assigned, document number, supply details and dates, and the applicable tax information. The ordinary VAT-document deadline is 15 days after the declaration duty or supply arises, while a qualifying cross-border EU service uses 15 days after the month of supply ends.
What is the B2B due date if the contract is silent?
For a paid B2B service contract with no different agreed date, the statutory fallback is 30 days after the later of invoice receipt or service delivery. If an agreed acceptance or verification step applies, the period starts from that acceptance or verification. A longer-than-60-day B2B term is allowed only if it is not grossly unfair to the creditor; late interest follows the agreed rate or, absent one, the statutory formula based on the relevant half-year’s Czech National Bank two-week repo rate plus 8 percentage points.
When should the parties switch to employment?
Switch when the real arrangement meets the dependent-work test: the individual works personally in a subordinate relationship, in the client’s name and under its instructions. A civil or commercial contract fits only where the work as performed does not meet that test. If it does, use the Czech employment guide to assess employment rather than changing the contractor label.
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