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Author: Magdalena Zgłobica

Magdalena Zgłobica, attorney-at-law trainee, practises employment law, particularly involving issues of cross-border hiring and mobility, as well as EU law. She is experienced in handling data protection matters. She completed the American Law Program at Jagiellonian University in conjunction with the Catholic University of America, and worked in the Human Rights Section of the Student Legal Clinic at Jagiellonian University.
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Clearer rules for access to regulated professions in the EU?

A draft amendment to the law on the recognition of professional qualifications acquired in the EU Member States has just been submitted to public consultation. The draft implements the EU directive on this subject (2018/958) into the Polish legal system. This directive in turn complements Directive 2005/36/EC on the recognition of professional qualifications. The deadline for implementation falls on 30th July 2020.

The changes are to unify the rules and criteria for controlling access to regulated professions for people from other EU countries. For it is not clear in the Member States according to which criteria the proportionality of the requirements is assessed and the level of control of the requirements at different levels of the sources of law is uneven.

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Changes in the posting of workers?

Public consultations on the draft amendments to the Posting of Workers Act are in progress. The Act governs the conditions of employment of workers posted to the territory of the Republic of Poland by a foreign employer for the purpose of temporary provision of services. The changes are aimed at implementing in Polish law the amended EU Posting of Workers Directive (2018/957).

The amendment contains several significant changes concerning the obligations to be fulfilled by a foreign employer posting his personnel to Poland. First of all, it broadens the scope of minimum conditions of employment of workers posted to the territory of Poland. It also provides for new tasks of the National Labour Inspectorate related to the enforcement of statutory requirements and the flow of information between inspection authorities in EU Member States.

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