Newsletter Labour Law

I. Amendments to the labour law

1. Increase in the minimum salary

The minimum monthly gross salary was increased to PLN 1,600 (around EUR 400) as of date January 2013.

This development will also lead to increases in: the maximum statutory severance payment for dismissal for reasons not attributable to the employees (15 times the current minimum monthly salary); the bonus for working at night (20% of the hourly rate from the minimum monthly salary); the minimum remuneration for downtime; the minimum compensation for discrimination or mobbing at work; and the amount against which offsets from an employee's monthly remuneration is allowed.

Legal basis:

• Act on the minimum salary as of 10 October 2002 (Journal of Laws 2000, No. 200, item 1679 as amended);