flash news: #special solutions
On 1 October the Sejm (Polish parliament’s lower house) passed a bill (text in Polish) supporting businesses that employ staff who are also in the territorial defence or active reserve forces. Under the new law, employers will no longer be required to provide severance pay to employees called for active service in the territorial forces. Instead, the initial payment will be made by their military units.
The Central Institute for Labour Protection (CIOP) has decided to publish general guidelines on adapting working conditions for people with depression. In these guidelines, CIOP mentions categories such as quantitative work requirements, rewards or supervisor support and development.
In a judgment at the end of August this year, the European Court of Human Rights confirmed that a change to the terms and conditions of employment, because of not taking a vaccination against COVID-19, was justifiable under human rights law.
On 25 September 2024, a bill was submitted to the Sejm to amend the act on special solutions for remedying the effects of flood and also certain other acts.
The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is working on an amendment to the legislation on collective labour law. We have already written on our blog about the most important assumptions underlying the Collective Labour Agreements and Collective Accords Act (UC34).
The draft contains many important changes, not only from the perspective of trade unions. It has been proposed that collective agreements should also cover persons performing paid work on a basis other than employment, such as contractors.
On 25 June 2024, a new draft law on collective labour agreements and collective accords dated 20 June 2024 was published (legislative work list number: UC34).
The proposed provisions are intended to replace in its entirety Section XI of the Labour Code, which currently regulates collective labour agreements.