publications - Labour and employment law

Trade Unions Amendment Act, changes regarding keeping employee documentation, Employee Capital Plans (PPK), lower social security contributions for small businesses, changes to the Labour Code to ensure the application of GDPR, securing a claim by ordering a worker’s re-employment.

Protection of business secrets, flexible forms of work time organisation for certain employee-parents, act amending the Trade Unions Act, storing employee documentation, Act on Employee Capital Plans.

Surveillance at the workplace, obligation to maintaing a register of employee data processing activities, principles of obtaining information about the criminal record of candidates for employment and employees of entities operating in the financial sector, lower social insurance contributions by the self-employed, directive on the protection of whistle-blowers.

Personal data in electronic form, cashless payment of remuneration and shortened period for storing employee documentation. Plus changes to the protection of an enterprise secret, Employee Capital Plans and Employee Retirement Programs.

Time magazine’s person of the year for 2017 was “The Silence Breakers”—the women who broke the code of omertà surrounding sexual harassment and launched the #MeToo campaign. Should employers expect to face a wave of harassment claims? What is sexual harassment and what are the employer’s obligations to counteract it?

Jarosław Karlikowski, Agnieszka Lisiecka 

Artificial intelligence is a concept that has made a great career in recent decades not only among engineers and scientists, but also in popular culture. Some take the view that no software or computers created to date truly qualify as AI, but technologies are already appearing on the horizon which can permanently change how companies operate, including on the HR side—and generating plenty of legal issues along the way.

Dr Szymon Kubiak, Kamil Jabłoński