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As a result of an armed robbery at a bank, a female employee at whom the attacker pointed a gun, suffered serious psychological harm. She was on medical leave for an extended period, had to take psychotropic medication, and attended therapy.
The Regional Court in Katowice found that the employer had not provided adequate safety measures – security had been withdrawn, no security cameras were installed, and her workstation was unprotected. As a result, the court awarded the employee PLN 95,000 in compensation, emphasising the causal link between the robbery and the harm suffered.
The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy has appointed a team to draw up proposals to reform the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP). This follows from changes to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, which the Council of Ministers approved in January of this year. The team’s main tasks will include preparing legislation to improve the Labour Inspectorate's operation and coming up with solutions to better protect individuals employed under civil law contracts.
The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is working on implementing a central HR and payroll system, which aims to simplify and digitise employment-related processes. In an earlier post, we mentioned the work on this solution. Below we present some new and more detailed information on its implementation.
From 1 April 2025 until 31 March 2026, new compensation rates will apply to persons who have suffered permanent or long-term impairments to their health as a result of an accident at work or an occupational disease. The amounts of compensation will depend on the degree of this impairment.
The Supreme Court has ruled that when assessing the legitimacy of termination of a contract by serving notice the date on which the employer became aware of the situation that justify such termination is relevant.
Social security statistics released for the end of last year show that almost 1.2 m foreigners (1 192.9 thousand, an increase of 65.1 thousand on 2023) were registered with ZUS. The largest group of people registered for social security are Ukrainian citizens, followed by people from Belarus and Georgia.