...Governor Zdenek Tuma said on Thursday.
Tuma said the labour market was a key signal showing "strong, robust growth" in the Czech economy.
He added the external environment was "neutral to slightly anti-inflationary" due to uncertainty about global interest rates.
The board voted 4-3 to raise the key two-week repo rate by 25 basis points to 3.25 percent earlier in the day.
[PRAGUE/Reuters/Finance.cz]