Polish mortgage borrowers will be able to suspend their mortgage payments for a total of eight months after the president, Andrzej Duda, signed new legislation into law on Thursday.
Poles working on a twin tunnel under the Fehmarn Belt strait in Denmark have achieved pay parity with Danish workers in a deal struck between unions and the FLC consortium behind the investment.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has expressed dissatisfaction with the EU's attempts to allow payment for Russian gas in roubles.
The Polish government spokesperson has dismissed a proposal made last week by smaller coalition partner Solidary Poland that Warsaw suspend payments to the EU budget.
Russia's Gazprom gas operator on Friday notified Polish counterpart PGNiG about changes in gas payment regulations starting from April.
Poles had 44.1 million payment cards at the end of Q1 2021, up by 441,000 from Q4 2020, the National Bank of Poland reported on Monday.
Using bio-polymers and the same short-range NFC (near-field communication) technology as contactless payment cards, the implant from Polish-British startup Walletmor can be sewn into the hand and used to make payments at all contactless terminals around the world that accept payments with standard cards from organizations such as Mastercard or Visa.
The percentage of Poles who know how to use their phones to pay for something is above the global average, a recent report by Mastercard has shown.
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.
The coronavirus could speed up the use of cashless payments in Poland as more and more people pay by plastic or apps, a survey has found.
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