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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.
On March 13, the Senate removed from the law on the conditions for employing foreigners those provisions that would have increased penalties for employers breaching labor laws, and those introducing a new type of an offence by an employer.