Supreme Court dismisses coal allowance claim for pensioner who retired from different mine, ruling allowance requires termination at same mine.

The Supreme Court of Poland dismissed the plaintiff's claim for a coal allowance, ruling that the term 'pensioners who retired' in the collective agreement refers only to those who terminated employment at the specific mine to receive the pension. The court found the plaintiff retired from a different mine in 1961 and later returned to work at the defendant mine, which terminated his contract in 1993. Consequently, the court determined the plaintiff did not meet the statutory requirement of retiring from the specific mine to qualify for the allowance.