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ARTICLE · 12 AUGUST 2009

Employment Measures To Combat Economic Crisis

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Temporary help is being given to businesses and their employees. The legislation, which will only be binding for a temporary period, has been signed by the President and will come into force 14 days after it is published in the Journal of Laws.

PolandEmployment and HR
Katarzyna Dulewicz
Katarzyna Dulewicz
Przemysław Stobiński
Przemysław Stobiński

Temporary help is being given to businesses and their employees. The legislation, which will only be binding for a temporary period, has been signed by the President and will come into force 14 days after it is published in the Journal of Laws.

It will allow all businesses to:

  • extend to up to 12 months the period used for calculating their employees' average working time
  • introduce individual working time schedules for particular employees, with different hours of starting and finishing work on consecutive days
  • offer employees consecutive fixed-term employment contracts for up to 24 months in total

There are also measures to help employers who have suffered a significant economic deterioration since 1 July 2008, including:

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