Supreme Court dismissed claim for additional leave due to strict statutory interpretation of tuberculosis risk regulations.
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court of Poland dismissed the plaintiffs' claim for additional paid leave granted by a lower labor court. The plaintiffs argued that their new employer should inherit the leave rights from their previous state hospital job due to identical tuberculosis risk conditions. The court ruled that the statutory list of eligible workplaces is exhaustive and cannot be expanded to include private entities not explicitly named in the regulations.
Legislator headnote
AI generated§ 1 of the Decree of the Council of Ministers of May 16, 1989; Additional paid leave for employees working under tuberculosis risk conditions is granted only to specific groups exhaustively listed in the regulations, prohibiting courts from expanding the scope of application to unlisted employers or conditions.