| On 6 June 2022, the Draft Act amending the Labour Code and certain other acts of 3 June 2022 (bill number: UC118) was published on the website of the Government Legislation Centre. It is intended to introduce numerous changes to the Labour Code concerning work-life balance.
One proposed change is the ability to permit parental leave for employees – parents of a child with a certificate stating a severe and irreversible handicap or incurable life-threatening disease which arose during the prenatal period of the child’s development or during childbirth for the purpose of caring for that child and in the scope of up to: · 65 weeks (in the case of giving birth to one child in one birth) · 67 weeks (in the case of giving birth to two to five children in one birth). Both parents of a child would be entitled to parental leave at the same time, but on the condition that the total amount of parental leave would not exceed the above-noted 65 or 67 weeks. Legislative work is still in progress and remains at an early stage. The draft law has not yet been submitted to the Sejm. Text of the draft bill: https://legislacja.rcl.gov.pl/projekt/12356556/katalog/12855391#12855391 |