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As the modern business services market continues to experience explosive growth in Poland, it is worth keeping in mind the legal issues surrounding practices related to monitoring of employees. The line between lawful and unlawful monitoring practices is at times unclear, and issues of personal data protection also must be kept in mind.
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Personal data protection generates a large number of difficulties in the day-to-day activity of service centres. This results from the complicated processes surrounding the processing of personal data in international corporations and the unique nature of the BPO/SSC industry,
but also from the restrictive requirements of Polish law regarding personal data.
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New minimum wage act sets lowest hourly remuneration for workers at Euro
8.50 from 1 January 2015. This regulation will have crucial impact on
undertakings from other countries providing their services in Germany.
Foreign employers will have to comply with the new law and pay their
employees staying in Germany at least Euro 8.50 per hour.
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The practice of entering into double net or triple net lease agreements has become fairly common in the modern commercial property market in Poland. This means that a significant majority of the costs of the upkeep of the leased property are shifted to the tenant.
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Can
you fully control the Internet?
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Jurisprudence
has provided two different decisions in identical case matter, namely the contracting
authority's right (or the lack thereof) to disclose information regarded as a
trade secret by the economic operator. The regional court in Łódź decided in
2004 that the contracting authority is bound by the economic operator's stipulation
regarding confidentiality of some of the information contained in the offer. It
may accept it or may reject the offer, but it has no right to disclose it. In
2005 the Supreme Court of the Republic of Poland declared something completely
to the contrary in its resolution: the contracting authority has the right to
disclose information which does not satisfy statutory conditions of a trade
secret. Is the Supreme Court right and does its resolution constitute the final
word in this matter? In my opinion, the resolution in fact only raises more
doubts.
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Since
middle of May, a new act on LLP companies is in force in Guernsey, providing
unique opportunities for tax planning.
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Creation
of something out of nothing, based on nothing, guaranteed by no one, persuading
people that this something is worth anything - we wonder how much longer it
will last and how many people will be worse off because of it.
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New rules of statutory warranty bring longer deadlines and significantly alter the buyer's rights.
