flash news: #equal treatment
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)
The Minister of Labour, Family and Social Policy has signed a regulation which eases formalities for women employees who have had a loss of pregnancy. Until now, the regulations did not allow women to take shortened maternity leave, if they were unable to identify their child’s sex.
The Ministry of Family, Labor, and Social Policy is completing an analysis of comments on a draft amendment to the legislation on mobbing.
The second reading of the parliamentary proposal for the salary transparency bill is envisaged even in the next parliamentary session in the Sejm (at the beginning of May). We discussed the original version of the bill in an article on our website. In April, a Sejm subcommittee approved a new, shorter version of the bill, drawn up in consultation with officials at the Ministry of Family, Labour, and Social Policy.
A non-binary person was dismissed from their job at a casino after refusing to comply with the employer’s dress code (heavy make-up, painted nails, elegant high-heeled shoes). The employer was sued for, among other things, compensation for breaching the principle of equal treatment in employment, as male employees in a similar position were only required to have a "neat appearance" – male croupiers could have stubble or long hair at work.
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.