The Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers following the decision of the District Court in Warsaw, 7th Civil Registry Department of March 23rd, 2018, obtained the status of a representative organisation, as defined in art. 24 sec. 2 of the Act of July 24th, 2015 on the Social Dialogue Council and other institutions for social dialogue.

More working women equals higher economic growth – by 2025, the state budget could gain even more than PLN 50 billion of GDP and almost PLN 20 billion of public levies, according to the latest Deloitte report “Hidden potential of the Polish labour market. Women professionally inactive”, prepared on behalf of Coca-Cola as part of the Labour Market Forum of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers.

The Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers and the Warsaw Enterprise Institute as part of the project under the title “Agenda Poland” present their joint proposal for systemic reforms of the state. This time, they focus on issues related to justice, which have been one of the hottest topics in the Polish public debate for more than a year.

The Supreme Administrative Court confirmed that the principle of universal succession refers to licences to run pharmacies, and pharmacy licences acquired through capital acquisitions are by law transferred to the purchaser. Thus, the Court confirmed the rights of entrepreneurs who over the last several years had been buying pharmacies, also from the State Treasury. The judgment undermines the interpretation pursued by the pharmaceutical inspection and the pharmaceutical corporation, which in recent years have acted against entrepreneurs, trying to change the…

The proposed new act can be considered the beginning of positive and much anticipated changes. Polish higher education is in a serious long-term crisis. There is can be no doubt that we are witnessing a multi-faceted problem that has a significantly negative impact on the condition of the Polish economy. Hard data, such as the places of our universities in the prestigious Shanghai Ranking, only prove how dire the situation is. Among the 500 best universities in the world, there are only two Polish institutions – the University of Warsaw and the Jagiellonian University.

According to the position published on February 27th, 2018, by the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, the introduction of mandatory electronic sick leaves is a step in the progressive direction of digitalisation of the healthcare which must be assessed positively. From July 1st, 2018, the only effective form of issuing a sick leave will be an electronic document. Until now, doctors have had a choice between writing a traditional sick leave on paper or writing an electronic sick leave entry in the IT system.