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Last week, the parliament finally adopted the Act on the Labor Market and Employment Services, which provides for new rules in the granting of subsidies to employers for employing senior citizens.
On March 13, the Senate removed from the law on the conditions for employing foreigners those provisions that would have increased penalties for employers breaching labor laws, and those introducing a new type of an offence by an employer.
On March 19 an amendment to the Labor Code comes into effect which provides supplementary maternity leave. The new regulations will permit parents of hospitalized newborns—both premature and full-term—to take additional time off for care.
The Director of the Labour Law Department informs us that the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is analysing reducing working time. The ministry has also requested institutes to research how long an employee is able to work effectively in a day. In addition, commercial analyses are being undertaken as to the cost of reducing working time.
The State Labour Inspectorate (PIP) plans to carry out 55,000 audits in 2025. According to information presented at the end of last year in the Sejm, one of the key areas of these audits will be the legality of employing foreign citizens in Poland, which is assigned strategic importance.
The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy has set up a team to prepare solutions to support parents who suffer a miscarriage or the death of a child shortly after birth. The ministry wants to simplify the current legal procedures so that this group of parents receives care and is not burdened with unnecessary formalities.