Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy is working on amendments to labour law that are to introduce minimum hourly wage. The government wants to discourage employers from using civil law contracts. The idea is gaining mixed reviews and sparked off heated debates among journalist, finance experts, or even government officials. The initiative will bring…
Paweł Szałamacha and Marek Gróbarczyk, Polish Minister of Finance and Minister of Maritime Economy and Inland Navigation, caught up everyone’s attention in a press conference that was held on Monday in Szczecin, in a shipyard cafeteria. The press event was called up in order to present a government remedy that is to bring back life…
Polish government is working on amendments to Corporate Income Tax Act, Personal Income Tax Act and Freedom of Business Activity Act that will bring the legal limit of cash transactions down. Presently, the threshold for transactions in cash between enterprises is 15,000 EUR, but this is soon to change. The new limit is planned to…
The Labour Code has recently undergone some changes. They mostly concern employees on fixed term contracts. The new provisions introduced to the labour law regulate the three types of agreements that articulate the legal relations between an employer and an employee: fixed term contracts, contracts for indefinite period and contracts for trial period. Ministry of…
A big change is coming for taxpayers. Polish Ministry of Finance has new plans to combat tax evasion and identify dishonest taxpayers. Polish edition of Forbes magazine called the upcoming solution revolutionary. Consolidated Control File – this is the name of the new tool that is to bring tax investigations to the next level. In…
Poczta Polska (Polish Post), the biggest provider of postal services announced that it is equipping its post carriers with mobile devices and dedicated “Mobile postman” application. The new devices will allow the company to broaden the scope of services offered and cut down on paperwork. Poczta Polska has not exactly been associated with innovation and…
Forbes magazine has recently published the sixth instalment of its annual The Richest People in Poland list. The ranking lists a hundred most affluent people in the country. From real estate moguls to ice-cream manufacturers, the richest Polish entrepreneurs may boast assets in the amounts from ranging from 340 million PLN (77.7 million EUR) to…
According to the report released yesterday by the Central Statistical Office (Główny Urząd Statystyczny), the unemployment rate in Poland for January 2016 was 10.3%, which stands out as the lowest January rate in the recent 25 years. In January there were 5,703 thousand people employed in the business sector, which is 2.3% more than in…
Mateusz Morawiecki, Polish Minister of Development, announced a plan for Polish development for the years to come, the Plan for Responsible Development, already dubbed by the media “Morawiecki Plan”. The strategy just got the government’s approval. The plan is to gear up Polish economy to reach new levels and to build grounds for growth even…
Polish deputy PM and minister of culture and national heritage Piortr Gliński visits Mumbai as a member of a Polish economic mission to India. The minister is accompanied by deputy development minister Radosław Domagalski as well as numerous Polish entrepreneurs and business organizations willing to tighten economic bonds with one of the Asia’s fastest-growing economies….
