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Due to the serious threat of illegal immigration, on 4 October 2023 border controls were reinstated on the Polish-Slovak section of the national border. Initially, the controls were in force until 13 October 2023, but there have already been two extensions and the current is in place until 22 November 2023. On Friday 17 November 2023, the website of the Government Legislation Centre published a draft regulation of the Minister of Interior and Administration. Under it, the third extension of Polish-Slovak border controls is to apply from 23 November 2023 to 3 December 2023.
13 November 2023 saw the entry into force of Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/2409 extending temporary protection in the territory of the European Union for persons fleeing the war in Ukraine.
The temporary protection has been extended for another year, namely until 4 March 2025.
Currently, we are waiting for the Polish provisions of the Ukrainian Special Act (the Act on Assistance to Ukrainian Citizens in Connection with the Armed Conflict in that Country, dated 12 March 2022) to be adjusted to the decision of the EU Council.
On November 2nd, 2023, an amendment to the regulation on work health & safety at workstations equipped with screen monitors was published in the Journal of Laws.
The changes will come into force on November 17th and from then on employers will have six months to comply with the minimum health & safety and ergonomic requirements set out in the amended regulation.
A recently published report from GUS (Statistics Poland) shows that 982,200 foreigners were working in Poland on 30 April 2023, accounting for 6.4% of the total number of people working in Poland.
On 19 October 2023, the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that making payment of the remuneration supplement conditional on an identical number of hours worked by part-time and full-time employees constitutes an unacceptable differentiation that, unless justified by objective reasons, is contrary to EU law.
By decision of the President of the Republic of Belarus, since September this year, Belarusians are unable to apply for and obtain passport documents while staying abroad. The latest regulation governing this matter completely deprives Belarusian citizens of the right to apply for a new passport, irrespective of the factual basis (loss of the document, destruction, expiry date), as well as any civil status documents.