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On 27 November 2025, the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy announced that the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers had adopted a draft of an act introducing a new definition of mobbing and strengthening employee protection. Although the approved draft has not yet been published, the Ministry’s statement already reveals its main provisions.
Four new executive regulations to the Act on the Conditions for the Admissibility of Entrusting Work to Foreigners in Poland came into force on 1 December.
The changes include a simplified procedure, new fee rates, clarification of cases allowing work without a permit, and new scope of required documents.
On Tuesday, 25 November, a draft bill comprehensively implementing the Pay Transparency Directive was entered into the Council of Ministers' list of legislative and program work (UC127). On this occasion, an outline of the new regulations was revealed.
Polish regulations are largely intended to replicate the requirements of the Directive. The following elements deserve particular attention:
ZUS states that between January and September 2025 the Social Insurance Institution undertook 341,500 investigations of persons having certificates of temporary incapacity for work (of which 114,400 were in Q3).
The Ministry of Family, Labour, and Social Policy has published a third version of draft amendments to the Act on the National Labour Inspectorate which version has significant changes in the area of determining employment relationships. The draft has, among others, the following key changes:
The beginning of December marks the end of the six-month period for replacing the executive acts governing the employment of foreigners, which were issued on the basis of the Employment Promotion and Labour Market Institutions Act (this deadline was established in Article 113 of the Conditions for the Admissibility of Entrusting Work to Foreigners on the Territory of the Republic of Poland Act, which came into force on 1 June 2025).