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A whistleblower from Armenia submitted a report, through his former employer's designated internal channels, on irregularities committed by one of the company's high-ranking manager. When this manager found out, he sued the whistleblower for defamation and won the case in court (the whistleblower had to pay high damages and apologise).
The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is working on a draft regulation on maximum temperatures in the workplace. According to the original proposal, which we wrote about here, the maximum temperature is to depend primarily on the metabolic rate of employees carrying out a particular type of work.
On 7 January, parliament received a government draft law on the labour market and employment services, which is to replace the current law on employment promotion and labour market institutions.
The most important assumptions of the draft are:
Najważniejsze założenia projektu:
The government has abandoned its plan to make all contracts of mandate subject to social security contributions, regardless of the level of income. This decision is part of a revision of the National Reconstruction Plan, aimed at avoiding the risk of losing EU recovery funds.
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:
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.