Authors: Aneta Ciechowicz-Jaworska and Izabela Szczepańska, Kancelarie Radców Prawnych A. Ciechowicz-Jaworska, B Ślażyński During and after the COVID 19 outbreak, the way we work changed. In addition to performing their duties at the so-called ‘workplace,’ employees started to provide work remotely. Due to the fact that previously the issue had not been regulated in the…
From April 26, 2023, fathers in Poland have had the individual right to parental leave, of which nine weeks a year are reserved only for them – if they do not use it, they will lose it. The new legal order does not affect the position of mothers, but aims to help them develop their…
Poles, Czechs and Slovaks prefer full-time employment, while Croatians and Hungarians prefer self-employment. Eurostat asked young Europeans what they thought about starting a business. Among all EU Member States, the highest percentage of supporters of self-employment was recorded in Cyprus – 64% (the EU average is 39%). In Central Europe, Croatians (57%) and Hungarians (52%)…
Sylwia Ziemacka talked to Cezary Maciołek, President of the Progres Group. The labor market seems to be doing quite well considering the current unemployment rates, despite the many challenges we face. What are the expected employment projections in 2023? The International Labor Organization (ILO) predicts that the level of employment in the world will increase…
Philip Morris is the first company in Poland with the “Employers of Dialogue between Generations” certificate. Representatives of four different generations meet more and more often on the Polish labor market, and such intergenerational cooperation is becoming a challenge and an opportunity for employees and employers at the same time. Philip Morris in Poland has…
24% of Polish companies want to hire new employees from October to December, but simultaneously, many companies are considering job cuts – these are two findings of the ManpowerGroup report published this week, presenting companies’ recruitment plans for the last quarter of this year. The net employment forecast for Poland for the fourth quarter of…
The Polish Deal is probably the largest change of tax law in Poland since 1990. All companies with operations in Poland will be affected. The changes significantly affect several areas of taxation including Corporate Income Tax (CIT), Personal Income Tax (PIT), and Value Added Tax (VAT). Despite the government’s official narrative that the Polish New…
The labor market situation is systematically improving from the point of view of employees: half of Polish companies are planning pay raises and the percentage of enterprises forecasting employment growth has increased, as indicated by the results of the 44th edition of the Employer Plans survey conducted by the Randstad Research Institute and Gfk Polonia,…
Poland is becoming a multicultural society, a phenomenon especially visible in larger cities. In 2020 alone, 3.16 million immigrants legally entered Poland with a work and residence permit, according to Eurostat data.
