A fixed-term contract as a threat to the rights of temporary workers
A fixed-term contract as a threat to the rights of temporary workers

Author(s): Łucja Kobroń-Gąsiorowska
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: temporary work; temporary worker; employment contract; flexicurity; fixed-term contract; sickness benefit
Summary/Abstract: Temporary work was regulated in the Act of 9 July 2003 on the Employment of Temporary Workers (Journal of Laws of 2003, No. 166, item 1608) allowing to hire a temporary worker based on a fixed-term employment contract and a civil law contract. According to the provisions of labour law, these persons are employees and on this basis “have the right to employee privileges” and “social security benefits”. The problem analyzed by the author concerns the issue of concluding one-day fixed-term contracts with temporary employees. From the point of view of the provisions of the above-mentioned Act on the Employment of Temporary Workers and the Labour Code, there are no contraindications to concluding such short-term contracts. In the event of illness, the temporary worker does not acquire, for example, the right to sickness benefit or sickness benefit itself.

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