Legal action against Dutch firms for allegedly profiting from forced labour of North Koreans in Polish shipyard dismissed

On 15 of April 2024, the Hague Court of Appeal decided that two Dutch companies are not to be prosecuted for profiting from human trafficking, money laundering or fencing. The …

CJEU / C-715/20

A Polish court is seised of a dispute between a worker employed under a fixed-term contract and his former employer. In accordance with national legislation, that employer terminated the contract …

ILAW Regional Meeting – Europe & Central Asia

September 8–9, 2023

ETUI Report on the social security rights of short-term third-country national migrant workers

“This report provides an overview of the ways in which EU and EEA Member States have regulated their social security frameworks in relation to short-term third-country national (TCN) migrant workers. …

Top EU Court Sides With LGBTQ Worker In Polish Case

The EU’s top court, weighing in on a Polish discrimination claim, ruled Thursday that self-employed workers must benefit from the same sexual orientation protections as other employees. The ruling by …

ETUI: The right to strike – country factsheets (35 Countries)

The right to strike varies considerably across Europe, often with specific rules and restrictions imposed on public service workers. The European Trade Union Institute has produced 35 country factsheets that …

European Centre of Expertise (ECE) in the field of labour law, employment and labour market policies: Thematic Review 2021 on Platform work

“Platform work is growing, yet it still remains a moderate to marginal form of economic activity across the EU. The lack of a conceptual quality framework and a unified approach …

Poland: Bill amending the Labor Code, the Act on Vocational and Social Rehabilitation and employing disabled people and the Act on Employment Promotion and labor market institutions

During the COVID-19 pandemic, under the influence of imposed restrictions, the possibility of remote work for employees appeared in the Polish labor law. Initially, as one of the forms of …

REGIONAL CASE STUDY From Ukraine to Finland and Estonia via Poland: Migration and posting of third country nationals

“This report gives an overview of the Con3Post project1 research that analyses a new and understudied phenomenon of posting third country nationals (TCNs) in the European construction sector, with a …

Dispatch 22: Polish Legislative Reform Tests a More Principled Approach to Collective Rights of Self-Employed Workers

Until 2019 Poland had one of the highest levels of workers performing personal work outside employment relationship who were at the same time fully excluded from the right to form …

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