The Sejm has passed an anti-mobbing bill
On Friday June 19, The Sejm has passed a bill amending the provisions of the Labour Code on mobbing and non-discrimination. Key changes include the introduction of a simplified definition of mobbing, an obligation on employers with at least 10 employees to adopt an anti-mobbing and anti-discrimination policy, and the establishment of minimum compensation for victims of mobbing amounting to six times the minimum wage. We have described the draft bill extensively on our website.
At the same time, during the final reading, the Sejm decided to introduce several important amendments to the new regulations, in particular:
- objectively justified unequal treatment is permissible and does not constitute discrimination,
- employers will be obliged to take ‘systematic’ measures to prevent mobbing and discrimination (the original draft bill stipulated that this should be done in an ‘active and continuous’ manner),
- in cases for compensation or damages for infringement of personal rights, discrimination or mobbing, the labour court will not be able to dismiss the claim if the circumstances of the case indicate that the claim is valid on grounds other than those specified by the employee (this means that an employee will be able to obtain compensation even if they incorrectly state in the lawsuit that the undesirable conduct to which they were subjected constituted mobbing),
- the vacatio legis period has been extended – the bill is to come into force three months after the date of its publication.
The bill will now go before the Senate.
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