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31 January 2025
The ministry has announced priorities for Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union

The beginning of the new year marked the start of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union which will last until the end of June 2025. In connection with this, the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy has announced the ministry's priorities for this period. The ministry will focus on three pillars in its work at the EU level:

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28 January 2025
Revision of the National Reconstruction Plan: proposal to give the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP) the right to independently convert civil law contracts into employment contracts?

The government plans to strengthen the powers of the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP) by empowering inspectors to independently convert civil law contracts into employment contracts, if they find that the law has been circumvented.

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27 January 2025
The Extraordinary Committee will consider draft laws from the so-called migration package

Last Friday (24 January), the Sejm appointed an Extraordinary Committee to consider the following draft laws concerning the labour market and foreign citizens staying in Poland:

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23 January 2025
Employers will have to estimate their employees’ metabolic rates

The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is proposing new regulations on maximum temperatures in workplaces. They will require employers to estimate their employees’ metabolic rates, which means collecting information about their height, weight and age, in accordance with Polish Standards

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21 January 2025
Draft bill to amend mobbing legislation published

A draft bill to amend the Labour Code with regard to mobbing has been published on the Government’s Legislation Centre’s website. We wrote about the objectives of the planned reform on our portal last week.

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16 January 2025
Assumptions of amendments to new regulations on bullying have been published

At the end of last year, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy announced the start of work on revising the definition of bullying, as we wrote about here.

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