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The Regional Administrative Court in Warsaw on 4 August 2022, ref. no. II SA/Wa 542/22, revoked the decision of the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO) by which an employer was admonished for unjustified processing of a candidate's data after the end of recruitment.
The judgment is not final in law. Even though the judgment was issued in a specific case, the position expressed therein could have a significant effect on recruitment and the application of data protection regulations. The view presented in the judgment, if the judgement is upheld, could give reason to assume that the jurisprudence, and practice of the supervisory authority in this regard, will become established and be that the retention of a candidates' data is also permissible for the period of statutory limitation, after recruitment has been completed, for purposes related to possible claims for unequal treatment / discrimination.
On 28 July 2022, a draft Regulation of the Council of Ministers on the amount of minimum wage and minimum hourly rate in 2023 was published on the Government Legislation Centre website (draft number: RD 585).
The Government proposed two increases in the minimum wage and minimum hourly rate.
A bill on collective labour disputes dated 11 July 2022 (draft number: UD 408) was published on the Government Legislation Centre’s website on 15 July 2022.
Refugees in Poland who escaped the war in Ukraine and have obtained a PESEL number showing “UKR” status, may travel from 23 July 2022 using their passports and a diia.pl digital document, which is generated by the mObywatel mobile app.
On 7 July 2022, the third version of the bill on the protection of whistleblowers (bill number: UC 101) was published on the Government Legislation Centre’s website. The submitted bill includes several changes compared with the bill published on 12 April 2022.
As of July 28, 2022, employees will receive higher per diems for domestic business travel. The change arises from an order of the Minister of Family and Social Policy dated 30 June 2022 amending the ordinance on dues payable to an employee working in an officially funded state or local government unit for business travel. The ordinance increases the per diem for domestic travel to PLN 38 per day of travel. Previously, the amount was PLN 30.