flash news: #remote working
On 15 December, the Senate adopted an amendment to the Labour Code and certain other acts (on remote working and sobriety control) with the following amendments:
- occasional remote working will be allowed for 30 days per calendar year (rather than 24 days),
- a parent of a child up to the age of 10 (rather than up to the age of 4) will be able to request remote working and the employer will, in principle, have to grant such a request,
- employees with disabilities will also be able to request remote working and the employer will, in principle, have to grant such a request,
- there will be a longer vacatio legis for certain provisions of the Act, including provisions introducing remote working as envisaged by the Code – 3 months (rather than 2 months) after its public announcement.
The draft amendment will now go back to the Sejm (lower house of Parliament), which can either support or reject the Senate's amendments.
On 1 December, the Sejm (lower house of Parliament) passed a bill amending the Labour Code and certain other acts. Remote work will now appear in the Labour Code, defined as work performed wholly or partly at a location specified by the employee and agreed each time with the employer, including at the employee’s home address, in particular using means of direct distance communication.