flash news: #social insurance

7 August 2025
Contributions based on annual bonuses only in the month of payment – ZUS rejects 1/12 settlements

The Social Insurance Institution ("ZUS") in the latest interpretation (DI/200000/43/546/2025) ruled that contributions are to be calculated on the total payments made in a month, even if they relate to different periods.

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31 July 2025
Will the Social Security Institution pay for sick leave from day one?

There is an ongoing discussion about abolishing employers’ duty to pay sick pay for the first 14 or 33 days of sickness absence in a given year.

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9 April 2025
New Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) compensation rates for accidents at work and occupational diseases

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.

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1 August 2024
Ministry of the Family, Labour and Social Policy plans to impose social insurance contributions on civil law contracts

On 5 July 2024, the Ministry of the Family, Labour and Social Policy announced the status of work on a draft amendment to the Act on the Social Insurance System and the Act on Social Insurance for Accidents at Work and Occupational Diseases. The draft was prepared and subsequently discussed at the last meeting of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers. Its aim is to implement the A4.7 reform set out in the National Reconstruction Plan.

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12 July 2024
Draft amendments to the Labour Code - seniority

On 9 July 2024, a draft bill on amendments to the Labour Code (UD59), dated 4 July 2024, was posted on the website of the Government Legislation Centre.

The draft extends the assumptions (which we wrote about here) to include the following:

  • periods of employment are to include:
    • training at a doctoral school,
    • receiving a sports scholarship,
    • drawing unemployment benefit,
    • running an individual farm or working on such a farm;
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21 May 2024
Assumptions of draft amendments to the Labour Code - seniority

On 13 May 2024, assumptions on the draft law on amendments to the Labour Code (project number UD59) appeared on the list of legislative and program work of the Council of Ministers. The proposed changes particularly include the following counted as part of the employment period:

  • periods of work on the basis of an agency contract, contract of mandate or other contract for the provision of services to which, in accordance with the Civil Code, provisions relating to mandate apply,
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