Privileged persons include pregnant women, persons of pre-retirement age, parents on leave (maternity, parental, paternity, upbringing), trade union activists, members of workers' councils, social labour inspectors...

The government unveiled its draft amendment on the Act on Employee Capital Plans (Polish acronym: PPK, further referred to as the PPK Act) on March 7, 2019.

The Ministry of Labour and Social Policy has announced a bill extending maternity leave for parents of premature...

The minimum wage is not only the base salary.

The latest draft of the Polish Act on Employee Capital Plans (PPK) was announced on July 17, 2018.

On November 24, 2017, the Polish Parliament accepted draft amendments to the Act on the social insurance system that will liquidate binding limits on pension and disability insurance contributions.

On February 8th, 2018, the Polish Ministry of Finance released the long-awaited first draft of the bill on employee capital plans (Ustawa o pracowniczych planach kapitałowych).

The Polish Parliament has adopted an act that became effective 1 January 2019 and shortens the retention period of human resource files and allows them to be stored in an electronic form.

An amendment to the Labour Code has expanded worker protection to include reprotoxic substances (i.e. substances capable of causing infertility, miscarriage or fetal developmental defects).

In July 2016 the Polish Minister of Finance proposed the Capital Development Program; a comprehensive plan for developing a voluntarily funded pension system with long term saving products in Poland.

On February 13, 2018, the Act on Amendments of Certain Acts in Connection with Shortening the Period of Storage of Employee Files and their Electronisation was published.

On 1 January, the minimum remuneration for work was raised, so that for 2017 it is PLN 2,000 gross.

As of 1 June 2017 new rules govern the employment of temporary employees. These changes were introduced to raise the standards for temporary employees (conditions of employment, and legal safety...

The year 2023 will bring many changes to labour law in Poland and may be challenging for HR departments. Below, we describe the most important changes coming into force at the start...

On February 15, 2018 the long awaited draft of the Act on Employee Capital Plans was published.

Wypadek przy pracy to nagłe zdarzenie, które nastąpiło w związku z pracą i spowodowało uraz lub śmierć pracownika.

In Poland the most typical and common form of staff engagement are employment contracts, which are concluded for a definite or indefinite period of time.

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