flash news: #equal treatment
The Ministry of Family, Labor, and Social Policy is completing an analysis of comments on a draft amendment to the legislation on mobbing.
The second reading of the parliamentary proposal for the salary transparency bill is envisaged even in the next parliamentary session in the Sejm (at the beginning of May). We discussed the original version of the bill in an article on our website. In April, a Sejm subcommittee approved a new, shorter version of the bill, drawn up in consultation with officials at the Ministry of Family, Labour, and Social Policy.
A non-binary person was dismissed from their job at a casino after refusing to comply with the employer’s dress code (heavy make-up, painted nails, elegant high-heeled shoes). The employer was sued for, among other things, compensation for breaching the principle of equal treatment in employment, as male employees in a similar position were only required to have a "neat appearance" – male croupiers could have stubble or long hair at work.
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 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.
The Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is working on a draft of amendments to Labour Code provisions on bullying.
According to a Ministry press communique,