— Handling employee complaints will remain a priority, especially any indications of non-payment or underpayment of wages.. Adequate pay for work performed is a basic employee right. One of the most important tasks will also be examining the circumstances and causes of accidents at work – fatal, serious and collective. This, of course, results from the specific nature and objectives of the National Labor Inspectorate’s activities, says Katarzyna Łażewska-Hrycko, Chief Labor Inspector.
However, new audit topics will also appear next year. Who will they cover?
In the field of technical work safety, new inspection activities are planned in the following sectors:
These industries must therefore take into account additional health and safety inspections. In turn, in the field of legal labor protection (i.e. compliance with the provisions of the Labor Code and other labor law provisions), new supervision topics concern:
— The tasks of the office also include verifying compliance with the new legal solutions introduced to the Labor Code, in particular regarding changed parental rights of employees and remote work. The new regulations in this respect differ significantly from the existing regulations, emphasizes Katarzyna Łażewska-Hrycko.
PIP also draws attention to, among others: to amend the Act on bridging pensions, which will come into force on January 1, 2024. Thanks to these provisions, people who performed work in special conditions only after December 31, 1998 will also be able to benefit from early retirement. The inspection announces that it will continue to inspect the list of workplaces where work is performed in special conditions or of a special nature, as well as inspections of the records of employees performing such work.
The National Labor Inspectorate’s action program also indicates what planned inspections individual sectors of the economy must take into account (these are inspections that do not result from employee complaints, but from the plans of the National Labor Inspectorate itself). Traditionally, sectors will be checked in terms of health and safety, including: mining, healthcare, trade. More detailed activities will also be carried out to verify, among others:
In turn, the legal protection of labor includes, among others: checks:
Each year, district labor inspectorates also select their own tasks, i.e. inspections or other activities that will be carried out in a given inspectorate (the latter overlap with voivodeships). The table below indicates what additional actions/inspections employers in a given region must take into account in 2024.
Lower Silesia (District Labor Inspectorate in Wrocław)
1) Occupational health and safety when operating machines in production plants 2) Compliance with labor law provisions, including occupational health and safety regulations, in stonemasonry, chimney service establishments and in veterinary clinics and offices 3) Improving compliance with labor law provisions, including occupational health and safety and the legality of employment in entities conducting commercial and service activities in tourist regions
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (District Labor Inspectorate in Bydgoszcz)
1) Working time and remuneration in law firms and bailiff offices 2) Working time of drivers
Lublin Voivodeship (District Labor Inspectorate in Lublin)
1) Occupational health and safety in prefabrication plants and concrete plants 2) Improving compliance with labor law provisions, including occupational health and safety and legality of employment, in entities conducting commercial and service activities in tourist regions
Lubuskie (District Labor Inspectorate in Zielona Góra)
1) Reducing occupational and accident risks in small sewage treatment plants 2) Occupational health and safety when performing certain forest management works
Łódź Province (District Labor Inspectorate in Łódź)
1) Occupational health and safety when operating machines in production plants 2) Compliance with labor law provisions, including occupational health and safety regulations, in stonemasonry plants 3) Improving compliance with labor law provisions, including occupational health and safety and the legality of employment in entities conducting commercial and service activities in tourist regions
Lesser Poland Voivodeship (District Labor Inspectorate in Krakow)
1) Occupational health and safety when operating machines in production plants 2) Improving compliance with labor law provisions, including occupational health and safety and legality of employment, in entities conducting commercial and service activities in tourist regions
Masovian Voivodeship (District Labor Inspectorate in Warsaw)
1) Occupational health and safety when operating machines in production plants 2) Explosives intended for civilian use
Opole Voivodeship (District Labor Inspectorate in Opole)
1) Work safety during hydrotechnical works related to the modernization of water stages (locks, weirs) and the construction of navigable spaces on the Opole section of the Oder 2) Compliance with labor law provisions, including occupational health and safety and legality of employment, in the meat industry
Podkarpackie (District Labor Inspectorate in Rzeszów)
1) Compliance with health and safety regulations in aviation industry production plants 2) Compliance with labor law regulations in small service and commercial points (so-called boxes) located in shopping centers
Podlaskie (District Labor Inspectorate in Białystok)
1) Occupational health and safety when operating machines in production plants 2) Occupational health and safety in workers’ positions in housing cooperatives and in the real estate administration sector 3) Compliance with labor law provisions, in particular regarding working time, in municipal and municipal cultural centers and other organizational units conducting cultural activities
Pomeranian Voivodeship (District Labor Inspectorate in Gdańsk)
1) Compliance with labor law provisions, including health and safety regulations, in stonemasonry plants 2) Improving compliance with labor law provisions, including health and safety regulations and legality of employment, in entities conducting commercial and service activities in tourist regions
Silesia (District Labor Inspectorate in Katowice)
1) Compliance with labor law regulations, including occupational health and safety regulations, in clinics and veterinary offices 2) Limiting employees’ exposure to hazards and nuisances occurring during metal forming work
Świętokrzyskie (District Labor Inspectorate in Kielce)
Compliance with health and safety regulations by entities performing work involving the maintenance of green areas
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship (District Labor Inspectorate in Olsztyn)
1) Reducing the occupational hazards of employees employed in car repair plants 2) Improving compliance with labor law provisions, including occupational health and safety and legality of employment, in entities conducting commercial and service activities in tourist regions
Greater Poland Voivodeship (District Labor Inspectorate in Poznań)
1) Inspections in facilities where a derogation was applied for the location of permanent work rooms below the surrounding terrain and whose height was below 3 m 2) Safety at work and while studying in school workshops
West Pomeranian Voivodeship (District Labor Inspectorate in Szczecin)
1) Compliance with labor law provisions, including occupational health and safety regulations, in stonemasonry plants 2) Improving compliance with labor law provisions, including occupational health and safety regulations and legality of employment, in entities conducting commercial and service activities in tourist regions
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