Supreme Court rules that transferring a teacher to inactivity after health leave violates the leave's purpose and is void.

The Supreme Court of Poland declared the lower court's dismissal of the plaintiffs' claim to have the transfer to inactivity declared void. The plaintiffs, two teachers, were transferred to inactivity by their school director after they had already begun a health recovery leave due to a school restructuring. The court held that the statutory duty to grant health leave creates a binding period during which the employer cannot unilaterally terminate the employment relationship to the teacher's detriment. Consequently, the transfer to inactivity occurring after the leave started was found to be legally ineffective.