The Polish Government has just announced that the measures to be put in place on 1 January 2017 will include an extension of the appeal deadline for requesting reintegration or compensation in particular in the case of dismissal or the end of a service contract. Find out more

The Polish Government has submitted to parliament a draft reform law on the hiring of temporary workers. This initiative is a result of the huge increase in the use of temporary staff and the rise in the number of temporary employment agencies. Find out more

Polish trade union Solidarno?? came closer to a long-held desire as the Polish Parliament voted for a ban on Sunday trading. As a consequence, Sunday shopping could be restricted from 2018 onwards. The ban is the result of a campaign that brought together NGOs and workers’ representatives and was... Find out more

Poland’s statutory pension age has been restored. The retirement age has been brought back to 65 years of age, for men and 60 years, of age, for women. The previous government had introduced a phased increase of the retirement age to 67 years by 2020 for men and by 2040 for women. The key question... Find out more

A long debated bill that leads to a reform of the three-pillar pension system has been drafted. The government formulated proposals for employer-sponsored pensions (PPK). The PPK-plan, which should start 1 January 2019, aims to bring up to 75% of the country’s employed population into occupational... Find out more

From 12 to 14 February 2014, the third annual workshop for the Network of European Works Council Trainers “the N.E.T.” was organised in Prague. 13 of the currently 16 members of the N.E.T. participated in a seminar which was divided into three major blocks: one day of topical discussion, one day of... Find out more

Trade Unions have a significant role to play in promoting equality in work places. The European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) has in fact embraced LGBTQI equality in its manifesto and work programme Find out more

A seminar for European Works Council (EWC) members took place on 1-3 March 2017 on the topic of occupational health & safety and how this can be used to develop joint action at the transnational level. Find out more

The second week of the ‘European training for young TU leaders’ course took place on 20-24 February 2017, in Brussels . Participants had the opportunity to learn more about the work of the trade unions at the European level. Find out more

The downloadable and interactive course programme for 2017-2018 is now online. Find out more