“Researcher” employment position
It is recommended to ask about possible work engagement already during the interview for admission to DSP (doctoral study programme). PhD students may obtain during their studies a partial or full time employment in the researcher position (vědecký pracovník) – V4 (according to the salary tariffs).
- The information related to salary as well as the forms are available here. General regulations, rules of selection processes and the wording of the collective agreement can be found here.
- Benefits for employees can be used in case of at least 50 % FTE (full time employment).
- It is possible to see the salary received based on an employment with UCT Prague (researcher and grant employment) on the websites of the Manager Information System MIS Personalistika (Human Resources) in the section Moje mzda (My salary).
- To enter information on your absence, please use Infsys. That is also where you can inquire about the presence of your colleagues (Evidence přítomnosti).
- Personnel Department contacts
Grant employment
This type of employment is possible if the student´s work group is engaged in some type of grant during his/her studies. (See GRANTS). ). It is recommended to ask before the start of doctoral studies if the work group of which you´ll become member is involved in any grant and if you could be involved in the work as well. If a student involved in a grant has reached 26 years of age, engagement of up to 0.15 % FTE will cover, at most, the expenses related to tax payments. A grant employment may be provided together with a researcher employment, or it can be solved in the form of an agreement on performance of work (Dohoda o provedení práce – DPP).
Benefits for employees
- If the V4 employment is equal to or higher than 50 % FTE (i.e. 20 hours/week), the employee receives catering contribution in contracted or own facilities of UCT Prague, amounting to 55% of the price of the meal, however no more than 51 CZK per day (see Decree No. 30.03/17, where you will find all information, including limits for individual catering facilities.
- In addition, there is a contribution to pension scheme at the amount of 3% of the employee´s tax base (at least 50 % - 20 hours/week) for social security insurance.
Rules of providing contributions by UCT Prague to employees´ pension schemes with state contributions (Pravidla pro poskytování příspěvku VŠCHT Praha na penzijní připojištění se státním příspěvkem zaměstnancům) - Employees may also use accommodation in training and recreational facilities of UCT Prague at discounted prices, vouchers for regeneration of mental and physical power (in case of employment of at least 50 % FTE) or the Motivation Programme of CSOB (Motivační program ČSOB).
Obligations
If you have employment outside UCT Prague, don´t forget to fill out the tax return for the respective year.
Supplementary economic activity ("VéHáčko" )
A DSP student may work on a task of the so-called basic supplementary activity, which is a paid activity linked to educational, research, development and other creative activities of UCT Prague and aiming at more effective utilization of human resources and assets of UCT Prague. Such work is performed by employees outside the scope of their work obligations and the employees receive bonuses for it. Students of UCT Prague, or other persons who do not have an employment relationship with UCT Prague, perform supplementary activities on the basis of agreements on work performed outside employment relationship. Employees are authorised to work on tasks of basic supplementary activities by their line manager, students are authorised by the respective head of department.
The work and services performed as basic supplementary activity are agreed between the project manager and the ordering party based on a written or oral order (see the Order template below). The order is entered in the school system by authorised employees of the Department of Keeping Records on Supplementary Activity (Oddělení evidence doplňkové činnosti), to whom you need to send the order electronically and provide the information about which category of supplementary activity is concerned. Once that is done, the task is included in MIS – Hlavní a doplňková činnost (Main and supplementary activity), where accounting needs to be done in due course (to be done by the researcher – the manual is available below or on the website of MIS- Hlavní a doplňková činnost (Core and supplementary activities).
To calculate the price of the work performed within the basic supplementary activity, the responsible researcher proposes assignment of the provided service to one of the following categories:
1. Scientific and research works, servicing services, analyses, etc., utilizing the equipment of UCT Prague, and printing activities,
2. Consulting and advisory activities. Category II may be chosen only for such works whose performance does not require any apparatuses or equipment except for a computer as a word or spreadsheet processor.
More details are on the website of Oddělení pro evidenci doplňkové činnosti (Department of Keeping Records on Supplementary Activity).
Objednávkový list (Order sheet)
Pravidla doplňkové činnosti VŠCHT Praha (Supplementary activity rules of UCT Prague)
Informace č. 50.01/07 Vyúčtování vybraných zakázek na VŠCHT Praha a jejich sledování ve finančním informačním systému (Information No.50.01/07 Accounting of certain orders at UCT Prague and their monitoring in the financial information system)
Manuál vyúčtování VH v MIS (Manual for accounting of supplementary activity in MIS)