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Come fly with me: construction boss pays for employees to fly home from virus-hit Spain

NOVMAR owner Wiesław Nowak paid for the flight out of his own pocket. Kancelaria Prezydenta RP

Nearly 50 people took advantage of the free flight home.

Polish PM to announce mitigating steps to help workers and employers

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced on Monday that solutions would be forthcoming for employers and employees in connection with the coronavirus epidemic.

Polish entrepreneurs worried about coronavirus business impact - poll

Nearly 97 pct of surveyed entrepreneurs are afraid of coronavirus's impact on their business, and 73 pct are already feeling the effects of the Wuhan virus attack, shows a study by the Business Center Club (BCC) among member companies, published on Friday.

Ex-presidents demand more rights for Ukrainian workers

Former presidents Bronislaw Komorowski and Aleksander Kwasniewski on Tuesday appealed for more rights for Ukrainians employed in Poland.

Poland named the largest source of remittances sent by Ukrainians living abroad

Approximately $3.8 billion was sent to Ukraine by the million or so Ukrainian citizens that are thought to have settled in Poland these last few years.

Poland sees a boom in overseas workers

Of the 232,000 work permits issued in the first six months of 2019, over 23,000 were given to citizens of 10 Asian countries who found Poland to be “a better life, better wages, a safe life, law which is in force and respected.”

Builders make sensational 2mln PLN find during renovation work

Around 10,000 coins dating back 200 years were found in the basement of a Kraków building sometimes called the “House of the Abbott” and had been stashed in linen bags which had long since decayed away.

Up to 750,000 people not working or learning could plug labour gap

With Poland battling a labour shortage that has left firms struggling to find workers the pool of untapped labour could prove to be a serious asset.

Historic housing estate built for Stalin’s workers keeps the home fires burning despite legal limbo

TFN takes a wander round the streets of Osiedle Przyjaźń: a little-known and fascinating corner of Warsaw, built to house Soviet builders working on the Palace of Culture.

Increasing numbers of workers heading to Poland as new report shows country takes on MORE than USA and Germany

Released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the report found that in 2017 1.1 million temporary migrants moved to Poland, putting it ahead of the United States, which received 691,000 workers, and Germany with just over 400,000.

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Top 5 articles:

  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

The first report:

  • Polish PM voices a clear stance on EU strategic autonomy at EU summit
  • Polish ski-jumper takes gold in normal hill competition
  • Covid crisis is an economic opportunity for Poland, PM says
  • Opposition presents pandemic aid programme
  • Ruling Law and Justice continues to have highest voter support - poll

Exclusive

‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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