flash news: #remuneration
On 11 July, wage negotiations in the Social Dialogue Council ended, but without agreement between the government, trade unions, or employers. As a result, the Council of Ministers on its own will decide on the minimum wage for 2026.
On Wednesday, 28 May, the Senate adopted with amendments the ‘Clear Earnings’ Act, which is to introduce mechanisms for transparency of remuneration at the recruitment stage. Today, 4 June, the Senate's amendments were approved by the Sejm's Extraordinary Committee for Changes in Codification.
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 parliamentary bill amending the Labour Code has been submitted, which aims to increase salary transparency. The proposed solutions are based on EU Directive 2023/970, about which we wrote here.
The draft establishes the general principle of salary transparency during an employment relationship, as well as prior to its establishment.
According to emerging information, already at the current session of the Sejm, MPs of the governing coalition are expected to bring a bill obliging employers to publish salary spreads in every job advertisement. This requirement would apply in both the public and private sectors.
On 29 July 2024, the Court of Justice held that a rule under which part-time workers can only receive overtime pay for work exceeding the work time standard applicable to full-time workers constitutes unequal treatment of part-time workers which, if not justified by objective reasons, may be contrary to EU law (case ref. C-184/22 and C-185/22).