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21.06.2024Deputy Minister Łukasz Krasoń: Funding will be available for people in oxygen or ventilator therapyAt the first meeting of the new Supervisory Board of the State Fund for the Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities, the government plenipotentiary for people with disabilities, Łukasz Krasoń, presented a programme addressed to people in oxygen or ventilator therapy.
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17.06.2024Minister Dziemianowicz-Bąk honoured with the “Patient-Centred Leader” award granted by the WE Patients FoundationThe WE Patients Foundation granted the “Patient-Centred Leader” award to Minister Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk “for the implementation of measures to change maternity leave for parents of premature and sick newborns and her exemplary dialogue with social organisations”. The award was granted on 14 June during an official gala, the culmination of the 3rd Patient-Centred Conference held on Friday in Warsaw. The conference was attended by NGOs associating patients.
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14.06.2024Director of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy appointed as the new Chief Labour Inspector. Congratulations!On 14 June, the Marshal of the Sejm, Szymon Hołownia, appointed attorney Marcin Stanecki as the Chief Labour Inspector. For the past three years, the attorney served as Director of the Labour Law Department at the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy.
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11.06.2024Dziemianowicz-Bąk: Family and work - they go hand in hand! Applications for benefits under the “Active Parent” scheme may be submitted starting from 1 OctoberAt a press briefing today, the management of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy presented details of the introduction of the “Active Parent” scheme. Applications for the new benefits may be submitted to the Social Insurance Institution ZUS from 1 October 2024. At present, 577,000 children are eligible for the scheme.
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07.06.2024Poland is a titular member of the Administrative Council of the International Labour Organisation!Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy, together with the Director General of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, Liwiusz Laska, represented Poland at the 112th Session of the International Labour Conference. It is the annual meeting of the most important body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which is a specialised agenda of the United Nations Organisation as well as the world's most important organisation dealing with labour law and social affairs, which adopted more than 190 international conventions.
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06.06.2024Unemployment rate on the decline! Record result in MayAt the end of May, the registered unemployment rate estimated by the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy reached 5.0%, 0.1 percentage point lower than in April this year. The number of the unemployed amounted to 778,300, i.e. 18,800 less than at the end of April this year. Since 1990, there has never been a lower number of unemployed people recorded or a lower registered unemployment rate in May.
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28.05.2024Payment of "fourteenth pensions" will start in SeptemberThe 14th pension will be paid this year in September - the Council of Ministers has just adopted a regulation concerning this matter. The money will go to 8.9 million people and 6.4 million people will receive the full amount - PLN 1,780.96.
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27.05.2024The Statistics Poland confirmed our estimates. Unemployment in April 2024 is the lowest in 30 yearsThe Statistics Poland has confirmed the estimates of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, which show that in April this year the registered unemployment rate was 5.1 per cent. - 0.2 percentage points lower than in March this year and in April 2023, which is the best result since 1990.
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24.05.2024Parents of premature babies with longer maternity leave. There is a draft lawAs promised by Minister Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk even before this year's Mother's Day, parents of children born prematurely and hospitalised after birth received a special gift. It is a law extending maternity leave when a child is born prematurely or requires a longer stay in hospital.
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23.05.2024The Sejm (Polish Parliament) has adopted the law on whistleblowersThe protection of employees who report employment-related violations of the law and with regard to the implementation of a directive of the European Parliament and the EU Council are the main objectives of the Law on the Protection of Whistleblowers, which has just been adopted by the Sejm.