Podstawowe problemy przyszłego prawa pracy

Abstract

Key issues for the future of labour law are among other things the preservation of the employment relationship as a major base of employment, restrictions on the freedom of contracts, the enforcement of the employment regulations, making labour law more flexible, development of atypical forms of employment and the protection of other work, including in particular employment on the civil law basis. The latter is connected with granting certain employee rights to performers working on the basis of civil law contracts. In the field of collective labour law in Poland the problem of non-union employee representation should be settled. There also significant increase of the role of collective agreements is needed. The lack of solutions to these issues in the future (especially the consent to moving away from the employment relationship or keeping a substantial difference between the employment relationship and employment on the basis of civil law contracts) threatens with reduction in its importance and hence a significant reduction in the protection of employees. While no appropriate employees representation or collective agreements must mean retardation of collective labour law, what in the long run is detrimental to the economy.