- Phase
- Act of 13.03.2003 on special principles of termination of employment contracts with employees for reasons not related to employees - 'Collective Dismissals Act'
- Native name
- Ustawa z dnia 13.03.2003 r. o szczególnych zasadach rozwiązywania z pracownikami stosunków pracy z przyczyn niedotyczących pracowników
- Type
- Definition of collective dismissal
- Added to database
- 08 May 2015
Description
The collective dismissal is legally defined as a situation whereby an employer plans to dismiss, within a maximum of 30 days, at least:
- 10 employees if the company employs 20 to 99 employees;
- 10% of the workforce if the company employs 100 to 299 employees;
- 30 employees if the company employs 300 employees or more.
Employees whose employment relationship is based on nomination are not cover by this regulation. This applies for example to employees in schools, high schools and public administration to some extent.
Collective dismissals can be justified on economic reason, business profile changes, liquidation of the workplace, or other valid reasons unrelated to the employees. Collective dismissals cannot be justified on the basis of work performance.
While it is necessary to provide the reasons for dismissal of employees on indefinite contracts, it is not mandatory to indicate the reason for dismissing employees on fixed-term contracts. Yet, according to the verdict of the supreme court employees on fixed-term contracts have a right to receive redundancy payment (SN 4 December 2008, II PK 13/08).
Sources
- Ius Laboris (2009), Collective Redundancies Guide, Brussels
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Kuczkowski, L. (2008), 'Poland', in van Kempen, M., Patmore, L. and Ryley, M. (eds), The Redundancy Law in Europe, Alphen van den Rijn
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Collective Dismissals Act (in Polish)
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Forsal (2017), 'Wrocily zwolnienia grupowe. W jakich branzach?', 15 February
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Poland: Definition of collective dismissal, Restructuring legislation database, Dublin,
https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/legislationdb/definition-of-collective-dismissal/poland