Supreme Court allows severance for state enterprise directors whose fixed-term contracts expired by law after five years.

The Supreme Court of Poland partially overturned a lower court's dismissal of a director's claim for severance pay upon the expiration of his five-year fixed-term contract. The plaintiff argued that the statutory expiration of his indefinite-term appointment did not constitute a termination warranting compensation, while the lower courts held that only voluntary dismissal or early termination triggered the right. The court ruled that the term 'termination' encompasses statutory expiration and that the specific exclusion for five-year terms was inapplicable because the contract was originally indefinite, thereby granting the director his severance rights.