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The Social Insurance Institution ("ZUS") in the latest interpretation (DI/200000/43/546/2025) ruled that contributions are to be calculated on the total payments made in a month, even if they relate to different periods.
The Ministry of Health is working on an amendment to the Council of Ministers regulation on occupational diseases, dated 30 June 2009. From 21 December 2025, ovarian and gastrointestinal cancers are to be listed as occupational diseases.
There is an ongoing discussion about abolishing employers’ duty to pay sick pay for the first 14 or 33 days of sickness absence in a given year.
On 1 August 2025, new provisions of the Act of 25 June 2025 amending the Act on Repatriation and Certain Other Acts will come into effect.
The Government Legislation Center website has published a changed version of the deregulation bill which we described on our portal. The bill relaxes the formal requirements that apply to certain documents that are mentioned in the Labour Code, and clarifies issues related to employee representation in matters concerning a Company Social Benefits Fund (ZFŚS) and the deadline for paying the cash equivalent for unused vacation leave.
On Tuesday, 22 July, the Sejm held the first reading of the government (print no. 1426) and parliamentary (print no. 1404) bills amending the Labour Code and certain other acts.