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23 January 2025
Employers will have to estimate their employees’ metabolic rates

The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is proposing new regulations on maximum temperatures in workplaces. They will require employers to estimate their employees’ metabolic rates, which means collecting information about their height, weight and age, in accordance with Polish Standards

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21 January 2025
Draft bill to amend mobbing legislation published

A draft bill to amend the Labour Code with regard to mobbing has been published on the Government’s Legislation Centre’s website. We wrote about the objectives of the planned reform on our portal last week.

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14 January 2025
The government is working on a platform for electronic employment contracts

The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is developing a platform for micro-entrepreneurs, individuals and farmers that would allow the drafting of key employment-related documents online using ready-made templates.

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5 December 2024
The Ministry of Justice is drafting an amendment to Kamilek’s Law

The amendment is to the Act on Counteracting the Threat of Sexual Crime and the Protection of Minors and is  intended to be a response to problems that have occurred in the practice of that which is known as Kamilek’s Law.

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28 November 2024
The bill implementing CSRD also includes labour law issues

The Sejm has passed a bill implementing the Directive on Corporate Sustainability Reporting (CSRD). The new regulations will broaden the current extent of non-financial reporting by including social and environmental issues. Furthermore, entities that meet at least two of the following three criteria: i) more than 250 employees, ii) revenues greater than EUR 40 million a year, or iii) assets in excess of EUR 20 million, will become subject to the bill’s obligations already from 31 December of this year.

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15 October 2024
Court: Conclusion of an employment contract with a pregnant woman does not necessarily mean that such a contract is a sham

An employee concluded an employment contract and to complete formalities attended work for only one day. Immediately after that one day her children started to fall ill, and then the employee learnt that she was pregnant as a result of which she started to benefit from social security payments and did not return to work.

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