Estimates from the Polish Central Statistical Office (Główny Urząd Statystyczny, GUS [1]) indicate that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by about 1.7% in 2009 year-on-year. The government welcomed this result, and it looks particularly respectable compared with the GDP figures for
The company Officina Labor Sp. z o.o. is a subsidiary of Torfarm S.A [1]., which is mainly active in the area of pharmaceutical distribution. Based in Rzgów, a town in Łódź in central Poland, the company employs almost 400 people. Like many other players in the market, Officina Labor was affected by
Established 80 years ago, the company LOT Polish airlines (Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT, PLL LOT [1]) is owned by three stockholders: the State Treasury with a 67.97% share, a private owner the ‘Silesia’ Financial Society (Towarzystwo Finansowe ‘Silesia’ Sp.z o. o. [2]) with a 25.1% share, and the
According to estimates presented by the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (Ministerstwo Pracy i Polityki Społecznej, MPiPS [1]), the unemployment rate in Poland in July 2009 increased by 0.1 percentage point compared with June. The news is of some concern, as usually the summer months mark a
An estimated 200,000 persons work as security guards in Poland. In 2007, the value of the security services market was assessed at PLN 5 billion (about €1.14 billion as at 11 May 2009), according to the National Bank of Poland (Narodowy Bank Polski, NBP [1]). The fact that most security guards work
Evidence that the global economic crisis has arrived in Poland can be seen on the Warsaw stock exchange, in individual companies and at the local (/poviat/) labour offices. At the same time, the downward trend in the unemployment rate, although still strong in mid 2008, appears to have been reversed
On 29 September 2008, the government concluded work on a draft bill reforming the system of enhanced early retirement, whereby members of particular occupational groups – such as miners, steelworkers and some transport workers and teachers – may retire early on grounds of their strenuous work. A
On 14 Ocober 2008, the All-Poland Trade Union of Radiotherapy Technicians (Ogólnopolski Związek Zawodowy Techników Medycznych Radioterapii, OZZTMR [1]) together with the All-Poland Trade Union of Electroradiology Technicians (Ogólnopolski Związek Zawodowy Techników Medycznych Elektrokardiologii
Representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy (Ministerstwo Pracy i Polityki Społecznej, MPiPS [1]) have explained that the introduction of amendments to the Act on the promotion of employment and labour market institutions is inevitable in view of the changes which have taken place in
In recent years, workers at the Budryk hard coal mine (Kompania Wegla Kamiennego Budryk S.A.) in the Silesia province in southern Poland have on several occasions organised protest actions. Given the frequency of industrial action at Budryk, it could be said that the present action is part of a