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According to the latest (published on 9 June 2025) information from Statistics Poland (GUS), more than one million foreigners (1,064,100) were working in Poland at the end of December 2024. Their share in the total number of people working in Poland was thus 6.8%. This means an increase in the number of foreigners working in Poland over the past year by 6.4% (comparing statistics from January and December 2024).
On 12 June 2025, the Council of Ministers adopted a minimum wage proposal for 2026. As of 1 January, it is to be PLN 4,806 gross, an increase of PLN 140 (3%) from the current PLN 4,666 gross. The minimum hourly rate is to increase from PLN 30.20 to PLN 31.40.
A bill has been published in the Government Legislation Centre as part of the announced process of deregulation. The bill is to change the form of submissions of certain documents between employers and employees or trade unions.
Pursuant to recently introduced amendments to the Act on Foreigners (which came into force on 1 June), changes concerning the EU Blue Card now allow foreign nationals without higher education qualifications to prove their possession of higher professional qualifications in certain IT professions by presenting at least three years of professional experience (as opposed to the standard five years), provided that this experience was gained within no more than seven years prior to submitting the application.
The European Commission has approved the Polish government’s proposed changes to the National Recovery Plan. As part of the revision, the requirement to levy social security contributions on all civil law contracts (contracts of mandate, specific task contracts) has been replaced by a plan to reform the State Labour Inspectorate.
On Wednesday, 28 May, the Senate adopted with amendments the ‘Clear Earnings’ Act, which is to introduce mechanisms for transparency of remuneration at the recruitment stage. Today, 4 June, the Senate's amendments were approved by the Sejm's Extraordinary Committee for Changes in Codification.