Supreme Court allows severance pay for employee whose employment ended by privatization law equivalent to dismissal.

The Supreme Court of Poland partially overturned a lower court's dismissal of an employee's claim for severance pay following the privatization of their employer. The employee argued that the automatic termination of their appointment under privatization laws equated to a dismissal, entitling them to statutory notice pay, while the lower court incorrectly treated the claim as an unenforceable damages suit. The Supreme Court ruled that because the termination was legally equivalent to dismissal, the employee was entitled to severance pay under labor code provisions.