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The government plans to strengthen the powers of the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP) by empowering inspectors to independently convert civil law contracts into employment contracts, if they find that the law has been circumvented.
Last Friday (24 January), the Sejm appointed an Extraordinary Committee to consider the following draft laws concerning the labour market and foreign citizens staying in Poland:
The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is proposing new regulations on maximum temperatures in workplaces. They will require employers to estimate their employees’ metabolic rates, which means collecting information about their height, weight and age, in accordance with Polish Standards
A draft bill to amend the Labour Code with regard to mobbing has been published on the Government’s Legislation Centre’s website. We wrote about the objectives of the planned reform on our portal last week.
At the end of last year, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy announced the start of work on revising the definition of bullying, as we wrote about here.
The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is developing a platform for micro-entrepreneurs, individuals and farmers that would allow the drafting of key employment-related documents online using ready-made templates.