Ponownie o przyszłości prawa pracy

Abstract

This study, printed on the occasion of an anniversary of scholarly work of professor Michał Seweryński in a volume titled Future of the Labour Law (Przyszłość prawa pracy) refers to my first study titled Future of the labour law (Przyszłość prawa pracy) published by the Jagiellonian University in 1991 in a joint publication Polish labour law in the process of changes (Polskie prawo pracy w procesie zmian). In that study I drew a conclusion that the future of the labour law in the changed political system in Poland depends on the ability to adapt the techniques of regulation of the human labour to the social relations associated with performance of such labour. I further developed the above argument in another study titled The subject of the labour law. De lege lata and de lege ferenda deliberations (Przedmiot prawa pracy. Rozważania de lege lata i de lege ferenda) published in Warsaw in 2011 in a joint publication titled Contemporary problems of labour law and social security law (Współczesne problemy prawa pracy i ubezpieczeń społecznych). I believed – and I still believe – that the future of the labour law depends on the coverage by the scope ratione personae of the new Labour Code of all types of legal relations under which work is performed. I think that the current distinction between employee employment and non-employee employment has no raison d’être. It hampers development of modern labour law. I hope that the arguments presented in my third, latest study titled Once again about the future of the labour law (Ponownie o przyszłości prawa pracy) will be well accepted by the honourable jubilarian, a learned and prominent politician.