Introducing the assumption of employment will change nothing

Eliminating abuses of civil law contracts would take a miracle. It is naïve to think that it can be done by including the assumption of employment in the Labour Code – adviser to the President of Employers of Poland prof. Monika Gładoch writes in “Rzeczpospolita”.

The issue of such an assumption always returns in discussions on changes in labour market regulations, mostly in the context of restricting the scope of civil contracts. Proponents of this solution are almost sure that it is the only effective way to combat labour law abuses. They believe that all the evils of civil contracts will disappear once the assumption of employment is introduced. Decision makers already have a solution: the relationship of employment will not be established by the inefficient and ineffective courts, as has been the case until now, but by state officials – labour inspectors. Obviously not by means of court rulings but in an unspecified administrative procedure. Sadly, this notion is fundamentally flawed, legally inadmissible and ineffective – she assesses. 

The article is available here.