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At the end of last year, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy announced the start of work on revising the definition of bullying, as we wrote about here.
The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is developing a platform for micro-entrepreneurs, individuals and farmers that would allow the drafting of key employment-related documents online using ready-made templates.
The Szczecin-Centrum District Court has found that speaking sporadically to employees merely in a raised tone of voice does not constitute mobbing. For a specific behaviour to be regarded as mobbing, it must involve persistent and prolonged harassment or intimidation, cause the employees to doubt their own professional suitability, cause or intend humiliation or ridicule to those persons and to isolate or eliminate them from their team of colleagues at work. Nonetheless, any assessment of whether mobbing has occurred must be based on objective criteria.
More than six months after it was first drafted, today (on 7 January 2025) the bill has been placed before the Sejm (lower house of Polish parliament).
The bill includes, among other things:
- higher penalties for illegally engaging foreigners to work in Poland
- streamlining and fully digitalising procedures involving the legalisation of foreigners’ work in Poland.
The government has withdrawn a controversial proposal to make it compulsory to employ foreign citizens solely under employment contracts, which aroused strong objections from employers and industry organisations. The change, imposed by the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, would have made it compulsory to employ a foreign citizen under an employment contract in situations where the basis for employment was a work permit or a statement on entrusting work to a foreign citizen. Critics argued that the regulation would reduce the flexibility of the labour market and increase the shadow economy.
The Social Security Institution (ZUS) has authorised the verification of receipts presented by employees for employer-funded lunches via a special app.