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On 5 July 2024, the Ministry of the Family, Labour and Social Policy announced the status of work on a draft amendment to the Act on the Social Insurance System and the Act on Social Insurance for Accidents at Work and Occupational Diseases. The draft was prepared and subsequently discussed at the last meeting of the Economic Committee of the Council of Ministers. Its aim is to implement the A4.7 reform set out in the National Reconstruction Plan.
The Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) has published a report on foreigners registered with Poland’s social insurance system in 2023.
The report states that 1,127,744 foreigners were registered with the social security system in 2023, which is nearly 513% more than in 2015.
The growth is therefore noticeable and has been almost exponential, so far.
On 11 July 2024, the Government Legislation Centre’s website published a bill to amend the Act on Vocational and Social Rehabilitation and on the Employment of Disabled Persons (UD93), dated 10 July 2024.
According to a report on the activities of the State Labour Inspectorate (text in Polish), 9,138 inspections were carried out in 2023, in which almost 40,000 foreigners were checked at to the legality of their employment.
On 12 June 2024, the Chief Labour Inspectorate presented a report on the State Labour Inspectorate’s activities in 2023 to the Speaker of the Sejm (lower house of Polish parliament).
It shows that in 2023, the number of complaints made to the State Labour Inspectorate fell by more than 14%, compared to the previous year. Most complaints were to do with the following irregularities:
- failure to pay remuneration for work
- shortfalls in the payment of remuneration
- late payment of remuneration.
The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is working on an amendment to legislation on collective labour law. The draft law on collective labour agreements and collective accords (whose most important assumptions - with regard to collective labour agreements we have already addressed in a previous flash) also contains a proposal for a significant amendment to the Trade Union Act.