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23 January 2025
Employers will have to estimate their employees’ metabolic rates

The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is proposing new regulations on maximum temperatures in workplaces. They will require employers to estimate their employees’ metabolic rates, which means collecting information about their height, weight and age, in accordance with Polish Standards

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21 January 2025
Draft bill to amend mobbing legislation published

A draft bill to amend the Labour Code with regard to mobbing has been published on the Government’s Legislation Centre’s website. We wrote about the objectives of the planned reform on our portal last week.

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16 January 2025
Assumptions of amendments to new regulations on bullying have been published

At the end of last year, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy announced the start of work on revising the definition of bullying, as we wrote about here.

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14 January 2025
The government is working on a platform for electronic employment contracts

The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is developing a platform for micro-entrepreneurs, individuals and farmers that would allow the drafting of key employment-related documents online using ready-made templates.

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9 January 2025
Occasionally raising one’s voice at an employee does not constitute mobbing

The Szczecin-Centrum District Court has found that speaking sporadically to employees merely in a raised tone of voice does not constitute mobbing. For a specific behaviour to be regarded as mobbing, it must involve persistent and prolonged harassment or intimidation, cause the employees to doubt their own professional suitability, cause or intend humiliation or ridicule to those persons and to isolate or eliminate them from their team of colleagues at work. Nonetheless, any assessment of whether mobbing has occurred must be based on objective criteria.

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7 January 2025
The draft bill on the terms of allowing foreigners to work in the Republic of Poland has been sent to the Sejm

More than six months after it was first drafted, today (on 7 January 2025) the bill has been placed before the Sejm (lower house of Polish parliament).

The bill includes, among other things:

  • higher penalties for illegally engaging foreigners to work in Poland
  • streamlining and fully digitalising procedures involving the legalisation of foreigners’ work in Poland.
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