Marcin Wujczyk
Dr hab. Marcin Wujczyk, attorney-at-law, practises individual and collective employment law, with a particular emphasis on employees’ right to privacy and employers’ cooperation with trade unions and employee representatives. He advises some of Poland’s largest companies on group redundancies, transfer of enterprises, and anti-mobbing and anti-discrimination proceedings. He provides immediate support in the decision-making process for management boards and HR directors of Polish and international companies. He is a lecturer in the Department of Labour Law and Social Policy at the Faculty of Law and Administration at Jagiellonian University.
Art. 42 §4 of the Polish Labour Code grants the employer broad authority
to modify employees’ working conditions. It permits the employer to assign work
to the employee different from that originally agreed. But this possibility is
subject to many limitations. The employer thus may assign different work to the
employee only when:
A legitimate need arises on the part of the employer The period of assignment of different work does not
exceed three months within a calendar year Assignment of different work will not reduce the
employee’s pay, and The assigned work is suited to the...
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A condition for calling a strike in a collective labour dispute is to obtain the approval of the employees through a strike referendum. The Act on Resolution of Collective Disputes gives only limited indications of the rules under which such a referendum should be conducted.
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