Teleworking and labor conditions in Poland
| Autor | Malgorzata Kurzynoga |
| Cargo | Doctor in Law and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration University of Lodz, Poland |
| Páginas | 43-49 |
IUSLabor 2/2017
TELEWORKING AND LABOUR CONDITIONS IN POLAND
Małgorzata Kurzynoga
Doctor in Law and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration
University of Lodz, Poland
Introduction
Teleworking is a relatively new form of work organization, introduced to the Polish
labour market ten years ago. Teleworking has been promoted for several years, mainly as
employment of people with disabilities.57 According to the Polish Central Statistical
Office, people who carry out work outside the employer’s premises using information
technology represent above 7% of the total number of the employed.58
1. Is there any regulation on teleworking in your legal system?
Poland has not ratified the ILO Convention No. 177 (Home Work Convention).
Therefore, the International Labour Standards have not exerted any influence on the
Polish law. However, Poland has implemented the European Framework Agreement on
Telework. The legal regulations on telework were introduced in Poland in 2007 by a new
Chapter IIb titled “Employment in the form of telework” added to the Labour Code. The
basis of implementation of the mentioned Agreement was the project of agreement on
teleworking signed by Polish social partners on 10 June 2005, which was the outcome of
negotiations between organizations representing the trade unions and the employers’
organizations carried out during the Round Table for Social Dialogue on European
Integration. The 2005 bipartite agreement was a fundamental step in the course of
implementing telework into the Polish legal framework, and resulted in the completion
of the work on the government’s draft legislation. In 2006, the Polish Ministry of Labour
and Social Policy presented the Bill amending the Labour Code, which was based on the
text agreed on by the social partners. The Bill was incorporated into the Polish Labour
Code in August 2007 and came into force in October 2007. It should be noted that prior
to the mentioned amendment of the Labour Code, there had been no regulations
specifically dealing with telework in Poland.
57 For m ore on the subject, see S. Zukowski, Telecomuting opportunity to use the economic potential of
people with disabilities in the Polish e conomy, http://www.toknowpress.net/ISBN/978-961-6914-13-
0/papers/ML15-525.pdf (accessed on: 15.07.2017); M. Olszewski, The employment of people with
disabilities in telework in Poland – best practises,
http://www.ef.umb.sk/konferencie/dvfp/pdf/prispevky/Olszewski.pdf (accessed on: 15.07.2017).
58 Polish Central Statistical Office, Yearbook of Labour Statistics, Warsaw 2015,
http://stat.gov.pl/en/topics/statistical-yearbooks/statistical-yearbooks/yearbook-of-labour-statistics-
2015,10,5.html.
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