Karol Nawrocki will decide the fate of millions of employees. An important turn regarding reform
The Senate adopted the amendment to the PIP reform act without any amendments. This means that the decision on this matter remains only in the hands of President Karol Nawrocki.
On Wednesday, the Sejm passed an amendment to the Act on the National Labor Inspectorate (PIP). It gives inspectors the authority to turn sham civil law and B2B contracts into employment contracts. Today, the act was adopted by the Senate without any amendments.
57 senators voted for the adoption of the amendment without amendments, 1 was against and 31 abstained. Now the bill will go to the president’s desk.
Giving PIP the power to transform contracts is one of the so-called milestones, the implementation of which determines the payment of funds from the National Reconstruction Plan (KPO).
PIP reform. The most important changes
The most important change is that the labor inspector – after conducting a hearing – will be able to issue an order regarding the form of employment. If this is not done, the case will go to the district inspector who will initiate administrative proceedings. It may end with a decision to transform the contract into a full-time position. Alternatively, the inspector will have the option of filing a lawsuit in court.
An appeal against the decision of the district labor inspector may be lodged with the court within 30 days. The Act stipulates that the court will consider the appeal within one month. Until the final decision is made, the inspector’s decision will be suspended. Therefore, the project does not introduce the rigor of immediate enforceability of the inspector’s decisions, as assumed in the previous proposal to amend the National Labor Inspectorate Act.
The amendment, with exceptions, will enter into force after 3 months from the date of announcement.
Millions of Poles are waiting for changes when it comes to the use of civil law contracts. A recent SW Research survey for “Wprost” shows that just over 70 percent of us believe that the so-called junk contracts are abused in our country. Only 12.3 percent respondents have the opposite opinion, and 17 percent there is no opinion on this matter.
