Supreme Court dismissed appeal; no causal link between employer dismissal and disability pension negates anniversary bonus right.
Poland (PL)
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court dismissed the plaintiff's cassation appeal regarding a claim for an anniversary bonus. The lower court found that the plaintiff's employment contract was terminated by the employer while he was on sick leave, which subsequently led to his disability pension. The court ruled that the regulation granting the bonus requires a causal link between the termination of the employment relationship and the transition to the pension, which was absent in this case. Consequently, the bonus was denied because the dismissal was not caused by the pension transition, and the plaintiff's attempt to introduce new facts regarding prior agricultural employment was inadmissible in cassation proceedings.
Legislator headnote
AI generated§ 9 zarządzenia Ministra Pracy i Polityki Socjalnej z dnia 23 grudnia 1989 r.; The regulation granting an anniversary bonus requires a causal link between the termination of the employment relationship and the transition to a disability pension, precluding a broad interpretation that ignores the explicit statutory text.