Since early autumn, the government in Poland has been working on a draft of a statute submitted by the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, which can downright disturb the status quo of standard employment agreements co-existing with flexible working contracts, common across the Polish job market. As the current (third) version of the draft proposes, the main mechanism to stir the pot will be the new powers of district labour inspectors.

Workplace restructuring that involves downsizing enmeshes with a number of employer duties in a thicket of legal acts. Among the regulations, it is the framework for group layoffs and our subject, monitored redundancies, that performs a crucial role.