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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.