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On Friday, 27 June, the Ministry of Labour announced details of a pilot programme for reduced working hours.
The start of June saw the entry into force of the Act on the Conditions Permitting Foreigners to Work in the Republic of Poland, dated 20 March 2025. The Act requires employers to provide the Ministry with copies of contracts that have been concluded with any foreigners, before such persons may be allowed to work based on a declaration assigning work to them or a seasonal work permit.
According to the latest (published on 9 June 2025) information from Statistics Poland (GUS), more than one million foreigners (1,064,100) were working in Poland at the end of December 2024. Their share in the total number of people working in Poland was thus 6.8%. This means an increase in the number of foreigners working in Poland over the past year by 6.4% (comparing statistics from January and December 2024).
On 12 June 2025, the Council of Ministers adopted a minimum wage proposal for 2026. As of 1 January, it is to be PLN 4,806 gross, an increase of PLN 140 (3%) from the current PLN 4,666 gross. The minimum hourly rate is to increase from PLN 30.20 to PLN 31.40.
A bill has been published in the Government Legislation Centre as part of the announced process of deregulation. The bill is to change the form of submissions of certain documents between employers and employees or trade unions.
Pursuant to recently introduced amendments to the Act on Foreigners (which came into force on 1 June), changes concerning the EU Blue Card now allow foreign nationals without higher education qualifications to prove their possession of higher professional qualifications in certain IT professions by presenting at least three years of professional experience (as opposed to the standard five years), provided that this experience was gained within no more than seven years prior to submitting the application.