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National Labour Inspectorate is an authority established to execute
supervision and inspection of the labour law observance. It is
subordinate to Parliament of the Republic of Poland. The supervision
of the inspection is executed by the Labour Protection Council. The
NLI’s organisational units comprise the Chief Labour Inspectorate
and District Labour Inspectorates. The inspection is managed by the
Chief Labour Inspector with the assistance of
deputies. The Chief
Labour Inspector is appointed and recalled by the Speaker of
Parliament, after having sought the Labour Protection Council’s
opinion.
National Labour Inspectorate’s supervision and inspection covers all
employers and entrepreneurs, who are not employers, but who have
natural persons perform work for their benefit, irrespective of the
grounds of performing such work. From 1st July 2007 National Labour
Inspectorate’s supervision also covers persons conducting economic
activity on their own account (the so-called self-employed).
By
virtue of the Act of 13 April 2007, the scope of National Labour
Inspectorate’s activity was extended by issues related to inspection
of employment legality and performance of work by foreigners.
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The Act of 13 April 2007 imposed new tasks on the National Labour
Inspectorate. They refer to the legality of employment and
foreigners’ work.
Performance of these tasks comprises inspection of compliance with
the duty to:
inform county employment offices of the employment of an unemployed
person or of entrusting performance of some other paid work to such
a person;
inform county employment offices, by an unemployed person, of
commencing employment, some other salaried work or activity;
pay contributions to the Labour Fund;
make an entry in the register of employment agencies with regard to
activity whose performance is dependent on obtaining an entry in the
said register;
run an employment agency in line with the terms specified in the
provisions on the promotion of employment and labour market
institutions.
In case of identifying, during an inspection, an infringement
consisting in the breach of the said duty, a competent labour
inspector lodges a motion, with a competent court, to penalise the
persons responsible for the identified irregularities.
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