Act No. 311/2001 Coll. of the Labour Code provides a 'general background' for skill development and training of employees. It includes:

• increasing/deepening the qualification of employees needed for the employees' work performance agreed in their employment contract, and
• participation in additional education (lifelong learning) particularly required by law. 

As these activities limit workers' availability to work, employers may provide employees with time off from work and wage compensation (in amount of the employee's average monthly wage) if the skill development and training is compliant with the needs of the employer. The Labour Code specifies the length of time off provided for individual education and training activities usually by the number of days. For instance, two days for each partial exam, five days for a final exam.

An employer is obliged to retrain an employee who is to be transferred to a new workplace or to a new type of work or manner of working, if such is necessary, particularly with regard to changes in work organisation or to other rationalising measures. The Labour Code only regulates conditions for increasing and development of qualifications regardless of whether it is long-term or short-term training; it does not regulate long-term training directly.

There is no legal regulation that would expressly state employers’ obligations to plan the development of their employees’ skills and competencies whether on a permanent or occasional basis.