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
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
November 11 is Polish Independence Day. In what historians refer to as the partitions, Russia, Austria and Prussia gradually annexed parts of Poland, so that it ultimately disappeared from the map of Europe altogether for 123 years, only reappearing as an independent nation in the aftermath of WW1, in 1918. On this day each year … 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
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
