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Last week, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy published a draft bill on platform work. The purpose of this legislation is to implement EU Directive 2024/2831 on improving working conditions in platform work.
The bill is intended to cover employment via digital labour platforms. These will be entities engaged in supplying a service that meets the following conditions:
The Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw resolved a dispute about when to tax variable pay to employees that is in the form of units of investment funds. The court overturned the interpretation of the Director of the National Tax Information Service who had had claimed that income arose twice – first as a benefit in kind from employment when the units were issued and then as income from capital when they are redeemed.
The deregulation committee has held the first reading of the government’s draft amendments to the Trade Unions Act and the Act on Informing and Consulting Employees.
On 30 July 2026, the president signed the anti-bullying bill into law.
The new regulations define workplace bullying as being persistent harassment of an employee, regardless of the consequences of it, a perpetrator’s motive, or the identity of the bully. A culprit can be a line manager, a colleague, or a group of persons. Employers of more than 10 persons will be required to define in staff regulations, or in a separate document, rules for preventing workplace bullying.
On 30 July 2026, the President signed the act implementing the EU's "Women on Boards" Directive, but at the same time referred it for ex post (subsequent) review by the Constitutional Tribunal.
Further provisions of the EU's AI Act come into force on 2 August. They focus on transparency in the use of artificial intelligence.