Athletes have been out of the social system for 3 years

The potential collapse of many professional clubs after January 1, 2019 has a dangerous impact on more than one thousand of professional athletes as well as the leagues in football, ice-hockey, handball, basketball and voleyball, not to mention the youth.

(...) The advisor to the Union of Football Professionals  Jozef Tokos says that the situation has been underestimated. There have been no concrete outputs in the first two years of the temporary period. He also criticizes insufficient communication between the Ministry of Education, which is the central state authority for sports and representatives of the relevant sport federations or the Slovak Olympic Committee. 

(...) Jozef Tokoš says that „professional football players do sign with clubs labour contracts in accordance with the sports law. I am not aware of any single contract, in which a football player would have a status of a self employed person after January 1, 2016.  The previous contracts signed before that date still keeps footballers as self employed."  (...)