flash news: #equal treatment
On Friday June 19, The Sejm has passed a bill amending the provisions of the Labour Code on mobbing and non-discrimination. Key changes include the introduction of a simplified definition of mobbing, an obligation on employers with at least 10 employees to adopt an anti-mobbing and anti-discrimination policy, and the establishment of minimum compensation for victims of mobbing amounting to six times the minimum wage. We have described the draft bill extensively on our website.
On 3 February, a bill was published of changes to regulations on preventing mobbing and employer obligations regarding work regulations and internal notices.
The Sejm has received a bill to amend the Labour Code to repeal the obligation to use gender-neutral job titles and to formulate job advertisements in accordance with the criteria of linguistic neutrality.
A bill aimed at strengthening the application of the right to equal pay for men and women for equal work or work of equal value has been published on the website of the Government Legislation Centre. The bill introduces a number of regulations designed to increase pay transparency and ensure pay equality, particularly, in the context of gender difference.
The Ministry of Labour is preparing a bill which will comprehensively implement the provisions of the EU Pay Transparency Directive into Polish law. In accordance with the objectives of the bill, which we wrote about on our portal, it will be the duty of every employer to assess jobs using at least four criteria: skills, effort, responsibility, and working conditions. The ministry has prepared two instruments to help implement the obligation, in particular, for small and medium-sized employers (although the instruments are intended to all organisations).
A new draft amendment to provisions on mobbing has been published. According to its provisions:
- compensation for harm suffered in connection with repeated infringements of the principle of equal treatment towards an employee (repeated infringements for the same reason or for multiple reasons, or a single infringement for multiple reasons at the same time) will amount to at least three times the minimum wage (from 2026 - PLN 14,418)