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The Ministry of Family, Labour, and Social Policy has published a third version of draft amendments to the Act on the National Labour Inspectorate which version has significant changes in the area of determining employment relationships. The draft has, among others, the following key changes:
The beginning of December marks the end of the six-month period for replacing the executive acts governing the employment of foreigners, which were issued on the basis of the Employment Promotion and Labour Market Institutions Act (this deadline was established in Article 113 of the Conditions for the Admissibility of Entrusting Work to Foreigners on the Territory of the Republic of Poland Act, which came into force on 1 June 2025).
On 18 November 2025, the Sejm Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs considered the Senate's amendments to the amendment to the Act on Foreigners concerning the digitisation of residence permit procedures and voted in favour of adopting them all.
Labour inspectors will soon be able to convert civil law contracts into employment contracts. We have, therefore, prepared an interactive tool that will allow you to assess the risk in the event of an inspection.
The draft minimum wage bill provides for a four-year minimum wage adjustment mechanism based on specific criteria, such as the purchasing power of a minimum wage, the general level of wages, wage distribution, wage growth rates and long-term productivity levels. In the ruling of 11 November 2025 (C-19/23), the Court of Justice of the EU declared that that criteria is invalid. As a result, the government will probably have to re-examine the bill, and consult social partners.
A new draft amendment to provisions on mobbing has been published. According to its provisions:
- compensation for harm suffered in connection with repeated infringements of the principle of equal treatment towards an employee (repeated infringements for the same reason or for multiple reasons, or a single infringement for multiple reasons at the same time) will amount to at least three times the minimum wage (from 2026 - PLN 14,418)