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The Supreme Court has ruled that when assessing the legitimacy of termination of a contract by serving notice the date on which the employer became aware of the situation that justify such termination is relevant.
Social security statistics released for the end of last year show that almost 1.2 m foreigners (1 192.9 thousand, an increase of 65.1 thousand on 2023) were registered with ZUS. The largest group of people registered for social security are Ukrainian citizens, followed by people from Belarus and Georgia.
Last week, the parliament finally adopted the Act on the Labor Market and Employment Services, which provides for new rules in the granting of subsidies to employers for employing senior citizens.
On March 13, the Senate removed from the law on the conditions for employing foreigners those provisions that would have increased penalties for employers breaching labor laws, and those introducing a new type of an offence by an employer.
On March 19 an amendment to the Labor Code comes into effect which provides supplementary maternity leave. The new regulations will permit parents of hospitalized newborns—both premature and full-term—to take additional time off for care.
The Director of the Labour Law Department informs us that the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is analysing reducing working time. The ministry has also requested institutes to research how long an employee is able to work effectively in a day. In addition, commercial analyses are being undertaken as to the cost of reducing working time.