Unions for people on contracts junk and self-
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This landmark decision of the Constitutional Court. The judges ruled that limiting participation in trade unions for salaried employees is unconstitutional. The judgment means employed to “śmieciówkach” may belong to trade unions.
About examine the compatibility with the Constitution and international law provisions of the Law on Trade Unions brought to the CT OPZZ.
Can people on civil law contracts should be able to join a trade union?
Rapporteur five members of the panel judge Mark Zubik said in a memorandum that “since the Constitution clearly marked the freedom to form trade unions, the legislature has no right narrow and determine who it may associate them “.
– The Court did not refer to the content of the Labour Code and found in it who is an employee, only to constitutional norm that allows to organize themselves in trade unions – said Zubik.
– This freedom is currently being narrowed by the law on trade unions and therefore held that there was non-compliance TK articles of this law with the Constitution – Zubik explained in the explanatory memorandum.
OPZZ indicated that enshrined in the Act Trade Unions definition of worker is narrowed to record contained in the provisions of the Labour Code. By then, he claimed relationship, Polish law allows to establish and join trade unions only workers with full-time jobs.
Chairman of OPZZ was counting on the verdict of the Constitutional Court. Jan Guz reminded that it OPZZ lodged a complaint with the Court on the unequal treatment of employees. Under current law, a trade union may in fact belong only to persons employed on full-time jobs.
He also pointed out that international organizations a few years ago stated that such persons should have the right to organize in trade. The Polish government, however, has not changed the rules. In his opinion, now the trade unions will be able to walk about four million people.
Money.pl based on data from the central trade union
– After the judgment of the Court of need will amend the law on trade unions so that people employed in the “junk contracts” have the same rights as other trade unionists – argued Jan Guz.
compounds are losing members
The number of union members has shrunk in 25 years Polish economic freedom by three times. In 1991, almost one in five Poles belonged to a trade union, today – only slightly more than one in twenty. In terms of the number of all full-time employees in Poland is 12 percent of union workers who have this right.
This is not only much less than ours quarter of a century ago, but also extremely pale in comparison with other countries in Europe. Of the 30 European countries we only fourth from the bottom. Behind us are only Estonia, Lithuania, and – the worst result in Europe – France, where the compounds are only eight per cent of the employed.
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The record willingly associate for employees in the Nordic countries – Denmark, Sweden and Finland this figure hovering around 70 percent. The result is not surprising because these countries customarily associated with good social care, taking care of the citizen and the widespread use of dialogue at all kinds of disputes.
From the results of CBOS survey results from mid-2014 years shows that the Poles on the one hand support the activities of trade unions, on the other hand believe that they are doing too little to defend workers’ rights. Only 27 percent of respondents believe that the interests of workers are protected by trade sufficiently. Similarly, in the case of influence on politics – only by 10 percent of Poles it is sufficient.How is the West
It is not surprising niedosytowi that leave the Poles unionists, even if you look at our western neighbor. It is true that the level of unionization in Germany is incomparably lower than in the Scandinavian countries, however, men of the employees are able to give you a toll. This is the case of the German railways and airlines. More than a dozen strikes and protests both these professional groups has led to delays and cancellations of hundreds of flights and trains.
For two years, Polish trade union who do not have to go to culturally talk about their demands. It was from that time does not work tripartite committee, which at one table gathered representatives of workers, employers and the government. It is hoped that talks all these parties – sooner or later – will return. The government adopted a draft law on the Council of Social Dialogue, and now working on the deputies. Attempting something donation of trade unionists on the eve of parliamentary elections for all political opportunity for capturing political capital.
(PAP) (IAR) , (PCI) , (TSAS)
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