Another appeal by business organisations to scrap mandatory employment contracts when employing foreign citizens
The draft Act on the conditions of admissibility of entrusting work to foreign citizens in Poland originally envisaged allowing foreign citizens to be employed in Poland exclusively under employment contracts where the basis for employment was to be a work permit or a statement on entrusting work to a foreign citizen. The Government ultimately withdrew this proposal, largely under pressure from the public (including sectoral organisations and employers), which perceived a number of risks in this change, such as limiting the flexibility of the labour market and increasing the so-called grey market.
However, the current version of the bill, which is currently being considered in Parliamentary Extraordinary Committee, still obliges foreign citizens to be employed under an employment contract if they have been directed to another entity by a temporary work agency. Thus, this controversial and widely commented requirement has not been abandoned in this respect. Consequently, business organisations, such as, the Lewiatan Confederation, have again appealed to the Government to abandon the mandatory employment of foreign citizens under employment contracts also where foreign citizens have been directed to another entity by a temporary work agency
The full appeal is available here.