We believe that a satisfied employee is the foundation of success. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits that support not only your financial security but also a healthy lifestyle, family, education, and leisure.
Financial Benefits
- 5 Additional Days of Personal Time
After successfully completing your probationary period, you’ll receive 5 days of paid personal time off for unexpected situations or a well-deserved break.
Personal leave can be taken
- 5 weeks of vacation
With CZU, you’ll get to relax for a week longer than required by law.
- Meal card . A meal allowance for your convenience every workday.
CZU provides meal vouchers to staff with a value of 100 CZK, of which 55 CZK is contributed by the Czech University of Life Sciences (ČZU) and 45 CZK is deducted from the staff member’s salary.
Meal vouchers are provided in the form of eStravenka – meal voucher payment cards.
- Pluxee Cafeteria
As a CZU employee, you’ll receive a monthly allowance of 300-500 Kč, which you can use according to your needs:
- for a MultiSport card,
- for retirement products (pension savings, etc.),
- or for a wide range of benefits in the Pluxee Cafeteria.
- Discounted employee SIM card
CZU employees can make use of up to 5 discounted products from the T-Mobile Benefit programme.
Now the employee signs a direct contract with T-Mobile with their birth number (rodné číslo).
You can find the discounted price list for mobile services here
Non – financial Benefits
- Registration to the CZU Library
- Discounted housing in dormitories
- CZU Sorts Centrum:
Swimming
Make use of the indoor swimming pool during designated employee swimming hours or public sessions. Swimming training sessions are also available for those looking for a more regular workout.
Gym
The university gym is open to CZU employees, students and the public – a convenient option for fitting exercise into your working day.
Tennis
Play outdoors from spring to autumn or move inside during the colder months. CZU offers both outdoor tennis courts and an indoor tennis hall.
Volleyball & Beach Volleyball
During the warmer months, you can book outdoor volleyball, footvolley and beach volleyball courts on campus.
Football
CZU has a year-round artificial-turf football field with lighting, as well as a grass football pitch.
Running & Athletics
Prefer to keep it simple? The outdoor tartan athletics track is available for running during sports facility opening hours and daylight.
Water Sports Equipment
Boat and other water sports equipment can also be rented by arrangement.
Ski Rental & Service
Heading to the mountains? CZU offers downhill and cross-country ski servicing, as well as rental and sale of new and second-hand ski equipment.
- Discount at a nutrition counseling center to help you take care of your health
The CZU Nutrition Advice Centre is based in the Food Pavilion (FAPPZ) and offers its services to staff at a 20 per cent discount.
Pop into the Nutrition Advice Centre and have your body composition analysed using state-of-the-art equipment. The centre also offers expert consultations and advisory services from nutrition specialists in the fields of healthy eating, nutrition for children and adolescents, nutrition for the elderly, nutrition for athletes, and appropriately tailored weight-loss programmes, amongst others.
The centre uses state-of-the-art equipment, including the InBody 770, for an accurate analysis of your body composition.
- Children’s groups for employees’ children
Poníček Nursery is a children’s group that provides childcare in a setting similar to a nursery school.
Poníček provides full-day, regular childcare for your children, open Monday to Friday from 7 am to 5 pm. At Poníček Nursery, children are aged between 2 and 6 years.
- Janov Accommodation Center
The CZU holiday centre in Janov nad Nisou is situated in the Jizera Mountains, 5 km from Jablonec nad Nisou. There are 8 rooms to choose from. Each room has an en-suite bathroom with a toilet. For further information, please visit the website janov.czu.cz
- Komorce Fishing Lodge
The CZU Forest Management Office in Jevany offers fishing at Komorce Pond, with accommodation available in the adjacent fishing lodge.
- fishing permit including accommodation for up to 4 people
- minimum stay is 2 days
- Operational Gardening Services
Operational Gardening offers the employees floral decoration for festive occasions, sale of cut and room flowers and other plant products, spring seedlings and decorative woody plants.
Partner benefits
- MultiSport card for an active lifestyle
The MultiSport Card is a benefit that employees can obtain exclusively through their employer. It applies only to employees in permanent employment, not to PhD students or those on contract work.
It is a prepaid pass (card) for leisure activities, valid within the network of MultiSport Benefit’s contractual partners, covering exercise and relaxation activities (fitness/wellness, yoga or dance classes, racket sports, saunas, bowling, climbing walls, etc.).
- Discounted banking products and accounts at select banks
- Raiffesienbank
- ČSOB
- Uni Credit Bank
- VIP account at DATART with exclusive offers
- Discounted tickets to the MA Theater
- Discount on Steiner & Kovařík luxury chocolate products
Steiner & Kovařík is offering CZU staff the chance to purchase sweet treats at a 20 per cent discount. To claim the discount, simply use the unique code assigned to CZU when making your purchase.
Steiner & Kovařík was founded in 2011 by Silvie Steinerová and CZU graduate Petr Kovařík. The company currently operates seven shops in Prague, including one at Prague Airport. It also runs a shop in Muscat, Oman, where the company is the sole foreign supplier of chocolate to the Sultan of Oman.
For more information, please visit the website: www.steinerkovarik.com.
- Discounted Microsoft Office 365 licence
Every CZU employee is entitled to a 30% discount on the purchase of a subscription to a M365 licence for personal use or for family members (2-6 people).
- Grammarly license
For using Grammarly you have to contact Helpdesk and request for access.
- Discounted tickets for concerts by the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra
As part of its collaboration with the Czech University of Life Sciences, the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra has prepared a special offer for you – a 20 per cent discount on concerts by the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra!
- KAMA FASHION & FUNCTION DISCOUNT
KAMA spol. s r.o. is offering CZU staff the chance to purchase wool knitwear at a 15% discount. Simply use the unique code assigned to CZU. The discount also applies to sale items. It can be redeemed both in the company shop (Kamýcká 241/2c, near the Kamýcká bus stop) and via the online shop.
For more information, visit www.kama.cz.