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The Ministry of Labour is preparing a bill which will comprehensively implement the provisions of the EU Pay Transparency Directive into Polish law. In accordance with the objectives of the bill, which we wrote about on our portal, it will be the duty of every employer to assess jobs using at least four criteria: skills, effort, responsibility, and working conditions. The ministry has prepared two instruments to help implement the obligation, in particular, for small and medium-sized employers (although the instruments are intended to all organisations).
Last week, a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers was held to address draft amendments to the State Labour Inspectorate (PIP) Act that were prepared at the Ministry of Labour, which, among other things, envisages giving labour inspectors the authority to convert civil law contracts into employment contracts. The reform is linked to the disbursement of National Recovery Plan (KPO) funds.
The Chief Labour Inspectorate has published a 42-question checklist, a so-called self-assessment list, for companies and individuals working under civil law contracts (including B2B). Its purpose is to facilitate the assessment of whether, in a given case, the appropriate form of employment is a civil law contract or an employment contract, emphasizing that classification depends on the actual manner of work performance, not a contract’s name.
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.
Four new executive regulations to the Act on the Conditions for the Admissibility of Entrusting Work to Foreigners in Poland came into force on 1 December.
The changes include a simplified procedure, new fee rates, clarification of cases allowing work without a permit, and new scope of required documents.
On Tuesday, 25 November, a draft bill comprehensively implementing the Pay Transparency Directive was entered into the Council of Ministers' list of legislative and program work (UC127). On this occasion, an outline of the new regulations was revealed.
Polish regulations are largely intended to replicate the requirements of the Directive. The following elements deserve particular attention: