Poland : government to amend law on workers’ information and consultation

The government is preparing a bill to amend the April 7, 2006 law on workers' information and consultation (see our article No. 06556) to make it comply with the European law, notably concerning counting young people in the workforce threshold for the creation of a works' council. (Ref. 080066)
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Including people under 18 in workforce thresholds. After the ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Communities, which stated that Member States can’t exclude some categories of workers from the workforce needed to create staff representation bodies (see our dispatch No. 070042) and under the threat of a Court ruling, the government wants to amend the April 7, 2006 law on the information and consultation of workers. Indeed, Polish law excludes workers under 18 from the count of the work

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