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Poland’s Commissioner for Human Rights is receiving complaints on abnormally long waiting times for residence cards to be issued to foreigners by the Governor of Lower Silesian Province, once the foreigners have obtained a Polish residence permit (at least 44 complaints were received on this, just from June to mid-July 2023). The Commissioner has intervened and sent a letter to the Governor of Lower Silesia requesting details of the scale of the problem, its causes, as well as the corrective measures the authority is putting into place.
The President signed the Act on Employee Participation in a Company Arisen from a Cross-Border Conversion, Merger or Division of Companies, dated 26 May 2023. The following are the most important issues that this Act resolves:
During the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, rules were brought in that allowed Ukrainians, Belarusians, Moldovans, Georgians and Armenians to apply for visas through the postal system or by proxy. This option has now been significantly restricted.
On 16 August 2023 President signed an amendment to the law on bridging pensions and certain other laws (Sejm Paper no. 3321), which extends the protection of specially protected employees.
The solutions introduced by this amendment in this respect are described here >>>
The provisions regarding specially protected employees will take effect 30 days after publication of the Act in the Journal of Laws.
The Ministry of Family and Social Policy has presented a draft regulation on the amount of minimum wage and minimum hourly rate in 2024 (draft number: RD 585).
Once again, two increases in the minimum wage and minimum hourly rate have been proposed:
- from 1 January 2024 the minimum wage will be PLN 4,242 gross, and the minimum hourly rate will be PLN 27.70 gross,
- from 1 July 2024 the minimum wage will be set at PLN 4,300 gross and the minimum hourly rate at PLN 28.10 gross.
On Friday, 28 July 2023, parliamentary work was completed on an amendment to the law on bridging pensions and certain other laws (Sejm Paper no. 3321), which extends the protection of specially protected employees.