Changes in Sickness Insurance and Incapacity for Work of Employees in the Moravian-Silesian Region

Sickness insurance is a part of social security and its task is to insure people participating in this system by the insurance benefits at law intended social events in order to reduce or completely eliminate the effects of these events. Reform steps in the sphere of sickness insurance and sickness benefits, especially the fact that during the temporary incapacity for work the benefits were provided only from the 22nd day, influenced the decisions of employees about their incapacity for work significantly. The aim of this paper is to give an idea of sickness insurance, especially the impact of legal regulation changes in the system of this insurance on employees, who represent the largest share of social insured persons focusing on the Moravian-Silesian Region. The impact of changes in sickness insurance will be presented by selected indicators of temporary incapacity for work using regression analysis to estimate the development of individual indicators in the following years based on knowledge of the development of indicators in the years 2000-2013.