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On 27 November 2025, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy announced that the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers had adopted a draft of an act introducing a new definition of mobbing and strengthening employee protection. Although the approved draft has not yet been published, the Ministry’s statement already reveals its main provisions.
A law changing the calculation of the length of service by which periods of work under a contract of mandate (or other contracts for the provision of services) and operating a business, among others, will be included in a period of employment, has been signed by the president and published in the Journal of Laws.
In August of last year, a three-member panel of the Supreme Court referred a legal issue that had been presented to it by the Regional Court in Katowice, for resolution by an enlarged panel of judges.
The Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy has presented a new (third) version of a draft regulation on maximum temperatures at the workplace. Compared to the February version, two significant changes have been made.
President Andrzej Duda vetoed a bill that would have lowered the health care premium for business owners.
A group of MPs asked a parliamentary question whether the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Policy plans to introduce changes to the regulations that would allow persons working under civil law contracts to also benefit from these rights upon donating blood.