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As the end of the year 2024 approaches, employers need to be mindful of several specific obligations. The most important are:
- Settling annual leave. As a general rule, annual leave should be taken by the end of the year in which it is due. Employers should, therefore, check that employees do not commence the new year haing outstanding leave, and agree when that leave is to be taken.
The Sejm has passed a bill implementing the Directive on Corporate Sustainability Reporting (CSRD). The new regulations will broaden the current extent of non-financial reporting by including social and environmental issues. Furthermore, entities that meet at least two of the following three criteria: i) more than 250 employees, ii) revenues greater than EUR 40 million a year, or iii) assets in excess of EUR 20 million, will become subject to the bill’s obligations already from 31 December of this year.
A few days ago, Legalito, the EWL Foundation and the Warsaw University Centre for Eastern European Studies published a report titled Migrants in Polish Companies: Employment Practices, Forecasts and Barriers: Employers’ Experience. The survey covered 200 medium-sized and large companies representing key sectors of the economy such as IT, construction, manufacturing or logistics.
According to the Deputy Minister of Health, a compulsory package of occupational health examinations will already next year be extended to include a cholesterol check, sugar level control and determination of the BMI index, which relates to the prevention of so-called civilisational diseases.
According to emerging information, already at the current session of the Sejm, MPs of the governing coalition are expected to bring a bill obliging employers to publish salary spreads in every job advertisement. This requirement would apply in both the public and private sectors.
The Sejm has started work on an MP bill on amending the Civil Procedure Code Act and certain other acts – the so-called ‘anti-hater law’. As indicated by promoters of the draft law, the aim of the bill is to introduce the institution of ‘blind actions’ - a special regime of civil proceedings for the protection of personal rights.