Supreme Court allows severance pay despite new fixed-term contract after employer-initiated termination.
Poland (PL)
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court set aside lower court rulings that dismissed a worker's claim for severance pay. The worker was terminated from an indefinite-term contract due to employer reasons but immediately signed a new one-week fixed-term agreement. The Court held that signing a subsequent short-term contract does not deprive the employee of statutory severance rights. Consequently, the case was remanded to the lower court for a new trial based on these corrected legal principles.
Legislator headnote
AI generatedArt. 1 ust. 1 ustawy o szczególnych zasadach rozwiązywania stosunku pracy z przyczyn dotyczących zakładu pracy; Art. 8 ust. 1 tej ustawy: The right to severance pay for termination due to employer reasons is not lost merely because the employee subsequently enters into a new fixed-term employment contract.