Labor Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz has published a proposal to make working hours more flexible in Polish labor law. The idea is to allow employers to shorten working hours, for example to seven a day, and then make up for the difference at a later time within a 12-month period. The amended law would also allow employees to start at a different time on different days of the week.

“Introducing the flexible working hours serves better work organization,” reads the Ministry of Labor statement. “It's a mechanism that will allow employers to to adapt to the rapidly changing economic situation. It will also help keep people's employment. Similar resolutions were implemented in 'anti-crisis bill' that was in force between August 2009 and December 2011.”

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