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11 February 2025
Employers will not have to measure employees' metabolic rates after all?

The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is working on a draft regulation on maximum temperatures in the workplace. According to the original proposal, which we wrote about here, the maximum temperature is to depend primarily on the metabolic rate of employees carrying out a particular type of work.

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7 February 2025
Parliament is working on a draft law on the labour market and employment services

On 7 January, parliament received a government draft law on the labour market and employment services, which is to replace the current law on employment promotion and labour market institutions.

The most important assumptions of the draft are:

Najważniejsze założenia projektu:

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5 February 2025
No charging of full social security contributions on contracts of mandate

The government has abandoned its plan to make all contracts of mandate subject to social security contributions, regardless of the level of income. This decision is part of a revision of the National Reconstruction Plan, aimed at avoiding the risk of losing EU recovery funds.

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31 January 2025
The ministry has announced priorities for Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union

The beginning of the new year marked the start of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union which will last until the end of June 2025. In connection with this, the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy has announced the ministry's priorities for this period. The ministry will focus on three pillars in its work at the EU level:

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28 January 2025
Revision of the National Reconstruction Plan: proposal to give the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP) the right to independently convert civil law contracts into employment contracts?

The government plans to strengthen the powers of the National Labour Inspectorate (PIP) by empowering inspectors to independently convert civil law contracts into employment contracts, if they find that the law has been circumvented.

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27 January 2025
The Extraordinary Committee will consider draft laws from the so-called migration package

Last Friday (24 January), the Sejm appointed an Extraordinary Committee to consider the following draft laws concerning the labour market and foreign citizens staying in Poland:

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