Recent Changes in Czech Labour Law and Social Security Law (First and Second Semester 2016/2017) - focused on Home Birth
2017
Abstrakt
The Czech legislator has set forth so onerous requirements for home birth as to effectively negate the possibility of having home birth. Although there are no laws forcing a woman to go to hospital to give birth - so every woman has the right to insist that she is staying at home to have her baby, she is as a result of said State policy not able to reach any home birth service.
This serious reduction in the rights of users of health care apparently occurred without much debate and with little comment from the government. It has been suggested that, if this change in the law took place without sufficient debate, it will be soon the subject of a judicial review, what happened on both national and international level.