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- Remote work - 16 solutions from the Polish Order (3)
The draft amendment to the Labor Code concerning remote work, prepared by the Ministry of Development, Labor and Technology, was directed to social and interministrial consultations. Adoption of the draft announced by the government for the third quarter of 2021 year. Complete or hybrid remote work performance, rules for its performance and the novelty of occasional remote work. Such, among others assumptions introduces the latest project on remote work. The new regulations are to become one of the elements of the Polish Order.
- The minimum wage and the higher hourly wage in 2022 (5)
The Council of Ministers adopted a proposal regarding the minimum wage for work in 2022 in the amount of PLN 3,000. PLN and the minimum hourly rate for specific civil law contracts in the amount of PLN 19.60. The proposed amounts are currently being negotiated with the social partners.
- The labor inspector will inspect a small construction site in the evening or at the weekend (5)
The National Labor Inspectorate (PIP) has launched a nationwide campaign called "Inspections on small construction sites". As the Chief Labor Inspector informed, the results of the National Labor Inspectorate indicate that the greatest number of accident and occupational hazards occurs at small construction sites. Determining the actual scale of irregularities and non-compliance with the provisions, the labor inspector will conduct inspection activities at various times , also in the afternoon and evening, and during weekends. Check whether the rules of occupational health and safety are complied with on the construction sites you operate.
- Questions and Answers
- Qualifications to perform thermal works with the use of plasma (6)
In the case of an employee performing plasma cutting, it is required to complete a training, which will include theoretical knowledge, practical training in the use of plasma welding equipment and conditions for safe work performance. Obtaining qualifications requires passing the theoretical and practical exam.
- No cause of an accident at work - what to do next (7)
In the absence of a cause of an accident at work, it is difficult to find an external cause that caused the fall and, consequently, head injuries. The lack of an external cause , including the objective inability to determine it, means that, regardless of the fulfillment of the other criteria for an accident at work, the post-accident team will have no grounds to classify the event as an accident at work.
- COVID-19 and OHS
- Compliance with the standards of working time in remote work (8)
Are the applicable regulations and the planned amendment to the Labor Code sufficient to avoid the risk of violations related to compliance with the standards of working time performed remotely? Doubts also apply to the way in which the employer should be guaranteed compliance with applicable law. So how do you control a remote employee?
- Health and safety training - Experts respond
- Is it possible to provide training to an employee who is on vacation (9)
The Labor Code states that training in the field of health and safety at work takes place during work and at the employer's expense. Therefore, an employee may not participate in periodic health and safety training during an excused absence from work, e.g. while on vacation. It should be directed at on a periodic safety training after the end of the leave.
- Working conditions
- Hybrid work - what new competences do we need (10)
Organizations are massively redesigning workplaces after the pandemic. Distributed teams in hybrid work are a challenge for organizations, managers and employees themselves. We will all need new systems, procedures, habits and competences to cope with hybrid work. Check what to do so that employees deal in this new reality in a sustainable and effective manner.
- Code of the profession - which to enter if it is not included in the classification of professions (11)
From May 16, 2021, the code of the profession for an employee should be provided in the application documents to the Social Insurance Institution. How to choose the code of the profession, where the names of work described in the internal rules ( and the characteristics of the job) does not correspond to its description of the same names of professions included in the classification of professions or there do not exist? What should you consider when choosing the right profession code?
- The subject of the issue
- Principles of functioning of the social labor inspection (12)
Social labor inspection is a social service performed by employees. ensuring safe and hygienic working conditions and protection of employee rights specified in the provisions of the labor law. Therefore, the area of interest of social inspectors is the employer's provision of working conditions resulting from the principles of health and safety at work. In the article you will learn, among other things, how to choose a social labor inspector in a company and what his cooperation with the company health and safety service should consist of. We will also suggest what should be controlled by such an inspector in the field of occupational health and safety and what is his role in determining the circumstances and causes of accidents at work and analyzing the causes of occupational diseases.
- Health and safety service
- Keeping and storing documentation as the 12th task of the OHS service (18)
One of the tasks of the OHS service is to keep records, complete and store documents on accidents at work, occupational diseases and suspicions of such diseases, as well as storing the results of tests and measurements of factors harmful to health. in the work environment. Everything seems to be clear, but in practice it turns out that not entirely. The more so as labor inspectors may have their views on the above-mentioned duties of the OHS service during inspections in the scope of the performance of their duties by the OHS service.
- Replacement for an absent employee of the OHS service (20)
Using the support of a specialist from outside the workplace during the absence of a full-time OHS worker seems to be a good practical solution. However, in the case of a longer absence of an employee of the OHS service, it may be questioned by the National Labor Inspectorate.
- Employer's rights and obligations
- Consequences of submitting objections to the labor inspector's report after the deadline (21)
If the labor inspector finds irregularities during the inspection, he is obliged to prepare a report. The controlled entity is not obliged to accept the content that the inspector placed in such a document. The controlled entity has the right to raise objections within 7 days from the day the report is made available. But what if the above deadline is not met? Is it worth raising objections after 7 days? As usual, a lot depends on the circumstances of a particular case, including the inspector you come across.
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- We vaccinate because we want to return to normal (23)
- Be a responsible employee, get vaccinated against COVID-19 (24)
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