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On 18 November 2025, the Sejm Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs considered the Senate's amendments to the amendment to the Act on Foreigners concerning the digitisation of residence permit procedures and voted in favour of adopting them all.
Labour inspectors will soon be able to convert civil law contracts into employment contracts. We have, therefore, prepared an interactive tool that will allow you to assess the risk in the event of an inspection.
The draft minimum wage bill provides for a four-year minimum wage adjustment mechanism based on specific criteria, such as the purchasing power of a minimum wage, the general level of wages, wage distribution, wage growth rates and long-term productivity levels. In the ruling of 11 November 2025 (C-19/23), the Court of Justice of the EU declared that that criteria is invalid. As a result, the government will probably have to re-examine the bill, and consult social partners.
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)
Yesterday (12 November 2025), the Mazovian Provincial Office in Warsaw posted a notice on its website stating that the inPOL appointment booking calendar had been disabled as of 7 November 2025.
According to media reports, during last week's meeting with employer organisations and trade unions, Minister Maciej Berek announced the preparation of another – third – version of a draft amendment to the State Labour Inspectorate (PIP) Act.