Instrumenty prawa pracy wspierające politykę prorodzinną – wybrane aspekty
Labour law instruments supporting state family policy – chosen aspects

Author(s): Katarzyna Serafin
Subject(s): Family and social welfare, Law on Economics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Summary/Abstract: Family is a basic element of society structure which makes it a universal value in the whole world of people’s society irrespective of socioeconomic or political systems of any country. Being constantly a great universal value as a basic social group at the same time family is undergoing dynamic transformation courses mainly related to changing social customs. At the same time more and more unfavorable demographic tendencies, such as postponement of decisions concerning birth of the first child and low fertility rate, are observed. Taking in consideration all tendencies mentioned above one should emphasize the need for different kind of state actions bound for diversion or at least stopping the negative demographic phenomena. One of them is properly shaped family policy, which consists of different forms of legal, economic and social support of the State for the families. In the paper there have been presented some labour law instruments, supporting State family policy guidelines implementation. The author has mainly concentrated on those legal regulations, which have been amended in the past few years. These include legal solutions related to working time and work organization, maternity protection and leaves related to parenthood.

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