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Providing for paid time off under a services provision agreement does not, in itself, establish an employment relationship. What matters, however, is how that time off is taken and accounted for: the arrangements should distinguish it from employee annual leave.
The Chief Labour Inspector’s latest interpretation concerns proposed B2B arrangements with construction contract directors. Under the proposed model, service providers would be entitled to 24 days of paid time off. The Chief Labour Inspector concluded that the terms described did not indicate to an employment relationship.
A meeting of the Working Group on Reduced Working Hours was held at the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.
During the meeting, information was presented on the implementation of pilot projects, as well as the results of a survey of employers and employees who participated in the Ministry’s pilot scheme on reduced working hours in the second quarter of 2026.
On Thursday, 5 November, an amendment to the Labour Code came into force, changing the regulations on workplace bullying.
Over the past six months, ZUS’s medical staff has increased by nearly 19 per cent (from 651 to 774 persons). This marks a reversal of a long-standing downward trend that was the result of the reform of the medical assessment system.
Following the entry into force of the reform extending labour inspector authority to check whether civil-law contracts are in fact being used as a substitute for permanent employment, regional inspectorates have begun sending letters to companies regarding the contracts in force at their premises. In these letters, they urge companies to self-assess and voluntarily convert contracts for specific tasks, B2B contracts and other civil-law contracts into employment contracts if the manner in which they are performed meets the criteria to be an employment relationship.
On 15 September, the European Commission adopted a package of three initiatives aimed at improving cross-border labour mobility:
- the Skills Portability Initiative,
- an amendment to the Directive on the recognition of professional qualifications,
- a directive for third-country nationals.