On 29 June, Poland’s Senate house definitively adopted trade union reform legislation brought to it by the Employment and Social Policy Ministry. The new legislation accords independent workers the right to establish and join trade unions, it modifies union representation criteria, broadens union organizations’ right to information, and intends for unions to be subject to criminal liability under certain circumstances.
Independent workers to have the right to establish and join trade unions. Doubtless this is the most publicized and controversial provision of the new legislation the reform and follows a 2015 Constitutional Tribunal ruling that restricting the category of worker that can establish or join a trade union was actually unconstitutional. This new legislation clarifies the definition of both employer and worker. A worker is defined as ‘someone carrying out work in exchange for remuneration and...
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