Rozanna Piela-Wojciechowska
Rozanna Piela-Wojciechowska, an attorney-at-law trainee, handles individual and collective labour law, particularly issues involving formation and termination of employment relationships, and employment restructuring, including transfers and layoffs of employees. She also handles data protection issues.
Some time has passed since the
Polish Labour Code was adjusted to the provisions of the EU’s General Data
Protection Regulation, but some issues remain unclear. Problems with
interpretation of the provisions arise at the stage of recruitment and
determining which personal data of candidates may be collected and processed by
prospective employees. Doubts are raised for example by the issue of the
permissibility of obtaining residential addresses from job applicants.
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Whistleblowers
are individuals who voluntarily and in good faith report or disclose
information about abuse, contributing to the prevention of harm and the
detection of public-interest risks and threats that would otherwise remain
undetected.
Although national institutions and bodies, as well as social organisations, have repeatedly raised the need for regulations to protect such persons, Poland has not yet developed a comprehensive regulation to protect whistleblowers. This is expected to change in the near future, as on 7 October 2019 the Council of the European Union adopted the...
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