Check the minimum hourly rate – Republic

According to the remuneration will be 12 zł per hour, and after indexation in 2017. – Approx. 13 zł.

in favor of the bill voted 380 deputies, 47 were against and 14 abstained.

Earlier, the Parliament has not agreed to reject the bill as a whole, as requested by Modern. MEPs rejected the proposal PSL to raise the initial hourly rate.

The head MRPiPS Elizabeth Rafalska emphasized on Thursday in Parliament that the law is “extremely important for Polish workers, Polish labor market and the Polish employers.”

“We are extremely and it was included in the expose Prime Minister, and in the program of Law and Justice, in Poland, employees were worthily rewarded. I hope that this law ends the time pathology pay Polish workers,” – she said, .

The Act, that the rate will be 12 zł per hour, but the amount will be indexed annually according to the increase in the minimum wage on-time. Because in 2017. Will force the new amount of the minimum wage (as proposed by the government – 2 thousand. Zł gross), the hourly minimum rate will automatically be valorised.

In subsequent years, the amount will be increased in consultation with the Council for Social Dialogue within the framework of negotiations on the increase in the minimum wage on-time and hourly rate.

According to the law passed by the Sejm allowance for night work will not be included in the salary.

The hourly rate is to include not only people in the contracts of the order, but also the self-employed, who single-handedly provide services for companies. The Act specifies when such a solution will be used, among others, the orders, which set the time of their benefits. The minimum hourly rate is to apply to all contracts, regardless of the method of determining salary – hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, etc.

The remuneration resulting from the application of the minimum hourly wage is to be paid in cash, which least once a month. Exemptions from the principle of a minimum hourly wage to apply to, among others, family homes and civil law contracts with the care of the participants trips.

The minimum rate will not apply, amongst others, contractor alone fixing the place and time of execution of tasks if his salary will depend solely on the result achieved. According to the authors of the Act in practice, this means that the new rules will apply to, among others, employees of security firms and cleaners, who have particularly low wage rates.

The National Labour Inspectorate – in line with the law – is entitled to monitor compliance with labor laws and the legality of employment without notice and entrepreneurs at any time of day or night. The hours of operation of the controlled entity without notice could result in control of the payment of the minimum wage for the job or the provision of services. PIP has control or controlled entity paid the minimum hourly rate, will also be able to command the continued payment of the required amount.

There will also be sanctions for violation of regulations on ensuring the minimum hourly wage. An entrepreneur, a person acting on its behalf or a person acting on behalf of another organization, which pays due isolation of plots for each hour of work in the amount lower than the applicable minimum hourly rate – will be subject to a fine of one thousand. to 30 thousand. zł.