Getting hired under a permanent employment contract is becoming rare in Poland. Indeed, one employee out of four is a temporary worker. Poland is the second EU country in terms of temporary workers (24,5%), after Spain (31%). (Ref. 06217)
The Polish Fair labor standards act protects workers only from an abusive use of fixed-term contracts. Other precarious contracts, which are not regarded as fixed-term
contracts (seasonal workers contract, replacement contract), thus escape to the protection brought by European directive 99/70 which applies to all atypical contracts. This situation is criticized by experts, who estimate that Poland did not faithfully transpose the Community directive, which imposes limitations in the use of...
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