As many as 185,000 Ukrainians have been employed under a simplified procedure that Poland introduced to help them find work, the Ministry of Family and Labour has said.
The Sejm, lower house of parliament, has rejected a Covid-19 bill which envisaged the possibility for free-of-charge testing of employees and increased fines for the violation of epidemic regulations.
Public administration employees will have to work from home soon due to rising Covid infections but the government is unlikely to introduce any lockdowns, the health minister has said.
A bill enabling employers to verify worker's Covid vaccination status was tabled at the Polish parliament on Tuesday and the realistic timescale for it to come into force is early January, the government spokesman said on Wednesday.
A majority of Polish workers are in favour of shifting to a four-day working week, research by the Personnel Service employment agency has shown.
Several hundred people employed in state agencies and institutions staged a protest in front of the Polish prime minister's office on Saturday, demanding higher wages amid long-lasting problems with pay rises in the sector.
Polish public sector employees on Saturday demonstrated against low wages in front of the Family and Labour Ministry and in several other places around Warsaw.
The number of employees in the services for business sector in Poland, which now stands at 355,000, may double within the next ten years, according to information released at a business lobby congress.
Employers will be able to ask employees if they have been vaccinated and then make decision on their employment status under a draft law that has already been presented to the government, the health minister has said.
Around 45 percent of Polish employees asked for a pay raise last year, one in three had never done so before, according to a survey published on Friday.
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