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On Tuesday, 25 November, a draft bill comprehensively implementing the Pay Transparency Directive was entered into the Council of Ministers' list of legislative and program work (UC127). On this occasion, an outline of the new regulations was revealed.
Polish regulations are largely intended to replicate the requirements of the Directive. The following elements deserve particular attention:
Polskie regulacje mają stanowić w dużej mierze powtórzenie wymogów dyrektywy. Na szczególną uwagę zasługują następujące elementy:
ZUS states that between January and September 2025 the Social Insurance Institution undertook 341,500 investigations of persons having certificates of temporary incapacity for work (of which 114,400 were in Q3).
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.