As 2019 has come to an end, it is time for employers to get ready for 2020. Below we present a short summary of changes in Polish employment law, covering such areas as salaries, taxes, benefits and employee litigation.… Continue Reading
There is a law in Poland guaranteeing minimum pay for work. There are rules how its amount is calculated and agreed. There are also upcoming elections in October 2019 which may unexpectedly influence its amount.… Continue Reading
This Autumn brings quite a few changes for Polish employers. Not only do new pension plans called PPK (Pracownicze Plany Kapitałowe) became a reality for the biggest Polish employers in the fourth quarter of 2019, but the Labour Code and Code of Civil Procedure see changes too. Some of them result in a need to … Continue Reading
Between 23 and 26 May coming, more than 400 million European citizens will have the right to vote in the European Parliament elections, albeit some may perhaps do so more enthusiastically than others. Among those 400 million potential voters, a fair share are in active employment. So what do you need to know about the … Continue Reading
The Polish Government published on 11 January 2019 a first draft of the bill regulating terms of stay of UK nationals and their family members in Poland as a consequence of Brexit. Without this regulation UK nationals would automatically acquire a “third country national” status under the Polish immigration laws and their staying and working … Continue Reading
Polish Data Protection rules are quite restrictive when it comes to the information that employers may safely request from the candidate or the employee but now there is a new question for them to consider: are you male or female? This is not quite as silly as it sounds. As a rule you can tell … Continue Reading
New legislation to protect employees sent from outside the country to work for a limited time in Poland came into effect on 18 June. The legislation implements just in time the EU Posted Workers Directive, which Member States were required to bring into force within two years of June 2014. The new legislation is intended … Continue Reading
A draft Bill was filed by the Government with the Polish Parliament on 10 April. The Bill proposes changes to the Polish Labour Code and related laws, mainly as regards 1) fixed term contracts and their termination, and 2) for the first time, the introduction of the concept of garden leave into the Labour Code. … Continue Reading
Earlier this spring the Polish Supreme Court decided that a company taking over a business is not bound by the non-competition covenant entered into by the previous employer. Normally you would expect the incoming employer to want the covenant to remain in force. However, to enforce a post-termination non-competition clause in Poland requires the employer … Continue Reading
In Poland the Tax Office operates a system whereby you can seek prior confirmation of the tax treatment which would be applied to any proposed business activity. One such application has recently hit the press, partly because of its subject matter and partly because of the sheer degree of prior consideration which had clearly gone into … Continue Reading
Yet another employment law dilemma in Poland has popped up in the media as we trudge towards the end of 2014. Not only Church vs State laws were stirring emotions (Church –v- State in Polish pregnancy dismissal claim) but also Saving Life – vs – Parking Properly was hot on the media agenda at the … Continue Reading
In November in Poland the story of a dismissed Religious Studies teacher hit the news. What made this story of interest? The Polish State requires schools to run Religious Studies (RS) classes. The teaching syllabus and text books are decided by the Church authorities and RS teachers must be issued a license (missio canonica) by … Continue Reading
In late May this year a group of MPs proposed a new Bill to the Polish Parliament expressly prohibiting shop work on Sundays. It follows a ban on shop work on public holidays introduced into the Polish Labour Code in 2007. In Poland work on Sundays is allowed only in a number of defined instances, … Continue Reading
As reported earlier in our blog [Shedding a little light on sex in the course of employment /Sept 17], an employer’s assessment of the many and varied ways in which employees can get themselves in trouble is unlikely ever to match the reality. As reported by one of the Polish daily newspapers last week, two … Continue Reading
Up to now, any employer employing a non-EU/EEA foreigner in Poland was obliged to first make sure that he held a valid work permit. Residence permitting issues were handled by the individual, with varying degrees of support from the employing company, yet always ultimately the responsibility of the individual. Now this balance is likely to … Continue Reading
You don’t have to be a new investor in Facebook stock to feel a little let down by social media sites at the moment. Watching the value of your stake spiral earthwards by 15% in less than a week must be depressing if you are a bank or a pension fund, but it is not … Continue Reading
