News & Events 2011

News & Events 2010

The Head of NLI met with journalists

Presentation of awards named after Halina Krahelska at the Parliament

Learning how to walk
on scaffolding

Committees’ positive opinion
on NLI’s report

Launch of a public campaign
focused on construction

Meeting of Polish and Lithuanian
inspectors

Members of Parliament support
motions for law amendments

Parliamentary Committee discussed
inspections of drivers’ working time

Chief Labour Inspector presented
NLI’s report for 2009

Conference on illegal employment
of foreigners

Chief Labour Inspector
presented Grand Prix SAWO

Conference on fighting
forced labour

High assessment of effects
of the OSH programme

There will be legislative amendments
proposed by NLI

Labour Protection Council talked
about safety in construction

Parliamentary Committee voted
for eliminating obstacles
to inspections

Jubilee on the 60th anniversary
of the social labour inspection

Members of Parliament accepted
the Labour Inspectorate’s
programme of activities

District Labour Inspectorates

Contact

The NLI`s Training Centre

Members of Parliament accepted the Labour Inspectorate’s programme of activities

At its session held at the seat of Parliament on 6 January 2010, the Committee for State Supervision of Polish Parliament became acquainted with the National Labour Inspectorate’s activity programme for 2010 and the long-term programme for years 2010-2012. Plans of the inspectorate were presented by the Chief Labour Inspector Tadeusz Jan Zając, accompanied by Deputy Inspectors – dr Marian Liwo and Anna Tomczyk.

The Chief Inspector presented to the Committee Members – like he had done at the forum of Labour Protection Council – a plan of preventative and inspection activities for the current year, programme objectives for the next three years and main directions of NLI’s international cooperation. He announced that safety of workers would invariably remain a priority in the inspectorate’s work. Therefore, understanding the importance of prevention, including advice provided to employers, labour inspectors will consistently insist on elimination of hazards to health and life of workers.

During the discussion, Members of Parliament raised the issue of, among others, non-payment or delayed payment of salaries due to workers. They observed that it was not always an outcome of employers’ ill will, but a result of their difficult economic situation. Therefore, in the opinion of MPs, decisions on penalising some entrepreneurs should be made cautiously, because it is them who create jobs in times of crisis.

Another mentioned issue were the provisions of the act on the freedom of economic activity, which requires that employers be notified of planned inspection visits. It was observed that such provisions often hinder the possibility of conducting an effective inspection by the labour inspectorate, especially in the area of legality of employment.

Referring to the problem of salary payment, Tadeusz Zając stated that he had issued an instruction saying that during visits, labour inspectors should reasonably assess the situation of a given employer and consider the employer’s good will as well as unintended economic hardships of the company. He added that efforts were being made to exempt the NLI from the act on the freedom of economic activity.

– We are much more interested in quality than quantity. We put emphasis on the quality of inspections, their subject matter and selection of workplaces for visits. I declare that we will increase effectiveness of our work based on all these aspects – concluded the Chief Labour Inspector.