EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT

• Types of Contracts of Employment
• Termination of an Employment Contract
• Telework

WORKING TIME

• Notion of Working Time  
• Periods of Rest
• Systems and Schemes of Working Time
• Overtime Work
• Work on Sundays and Holidays
• Night Work
• Specific Issues: on-call work and business travel
• Criminal Sanctions

LEAVES

• Annual Leave
• Acquisition of the Right to Leave
• First  Annual Leave
• Annual Leave Plan
• Leave on Demand
• Postponing the Annual Leave
• Returning  the Worker from Leave
• Proportional Leave
• Leave During the Period of Notice
• Holiday Pay
• Annual Leave Equivalent
• Unpaid Leave
• Occasional Leave
• Other Types of Leaves (e.g. leaves for working parents)

WORKING HOURS

• Working Time in the Reference Period
• Calculation of the Working Time for the Employee
• Periods of Rest

 SYSTEMS AND TIMETABLES OF WORKING TIME

• The Concept of Day and Week in the Labour Code
• Method of Determining Systems and Schedules of Working Time
• Basic Working Time System
• Equivalent Working Time System
• Work at the Supervision of Devices
• Work in Guarding Property and Supervision
• Interrupted Working time System
• Interruption of a Meal or Taking Care of Personal Matters
• Shift Work
• Work in Continuous Motion
• Short Work Week System
• Weekend work system
• Individual Time Schedule
• Reduction of Working Time

OVERIME WORK

• Definition
• Overtime Work
• Days off for Overtime Work
• Supplement for Overtime Work

WORK ON SUNDAY AND HOLIDAYS

• Work on Sundays and Holidays
• Compensation for Work on Sundays or Public Holidays
• Work on Holidays in Commercial Establishments

WORK AT NIGHT

• Definition
• Limitations

DISCRETIONARY ISSUES

• On-call Work
• Business Trip

PART II - COLLECTIVE LABOUR LAW
(Ewa Podgórska-Rakiel)

WORKERS' PARTICIPATION

• Trade Unions
  • Protection of Trade Union Leaders
  • Equal Treatment
  • Cooperation
• Ad hoc Representatives
• European Works Council
• Negotiation
• Prior Consent
• Consultation
• Dialog

COLLECTIVE AGREEMENTS

• Labour Law Agreements
• Other Agreements

COLLECTIVE LABOUR DISPUTES

• Parties
• Stages
  • Mediation
  • Conciliation
  • Arbitration
• Strike
  • Warning Strike
  • Referendum
  • Restriction
• Other Industrial Action

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANIZATION

• ILO Standards
• Consequences Complaint to the ILO for Employer and for the Government

PART III - POSTING OF WORKERS
(Ewa Podgórska-Rakiel)

• Definition of Posting
• Terms and Conditions of Employment Applicable to Posted Workers
• Definition of a Worker and Posted Worker
• The Directives Lists the Terms and Conditions of Employment of the Host Member State that must be Granted to Posted Workers
• Collective Agreement Made Universally Applicable
• What does “remuneration” mean in the context of posting of workers
• Reimburse Travel, Board and Lodging Costs
• Duration of Posting

PART IV - EMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGNERS
(Ewa Podgórska-Rakiel)

• General Principles

PART V - WORKPLACE VIOLENCE PROTECTION
(Dorota Majewicz)

• Workplace Bullying
• Workplace Violence
• Working Well with Everyone - the Power of Good Communication 
• Dignity for All Workers/Code of Conduct
• Discrimination
• Sexual Harassment
• Workplace Substance Abuse
• Diversity Training
• Anti-Harassment Training
• Workplace Safety
• Ethics and corruption
• Privacy

GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION

• Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC
• Unified General Rules of Personal Data Processing (principles, conditions, measures)
• Specificity of Data Processing in the Context of Employment (consent, special categories of data, other)
• National Specific Rules in the Context of Employment (recruitment, employment contract, workplace)

 

RECRUITMENT

• Actors in Various Recruitment Schemes (controller, processor, other)
• Legal Grounds for Processing (statutory, contractual, consensual)
• Polish Labor Code in the Age of GDPR (application, interpretation, enforcement)

EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP

• Data Processing of and by Employees/Workers (rights, duties, liability)
• Data Processing by Employers/Group of Undertakings (rights, duties, liability)
• Data Processing by Third Parties (rights, duties, liability)