Employers are required to have a broad knowledge of regulations related to the working time of employees
Organizing, settling, and recording employees' working time is one of the most basic obligations of an employer. Working time is defined as the time during which the employee is at the disposal of the employer in the workplace or other place designated for work. When organizing working time for employees in Poland, entrepreneurs should bear in mind working hours restrictions.
Standard working time may not exceed eight hours in a 24-hour period and average 40 hours in an average five-day working week in a settlement period not exceeding four months. This means that, as a rule, an employee can normally work eight hours a day, five days a week. The two remaining days are days off.
Employees may work under different working-time systems; that is, there may be different working-time arrangements within these working time standards. The most common working time systems are:
• The basic working time system, in which the employee works 8 hours a day, in a fixed mode, with predetermined working hours (for example, eight to 16) and the work is performed five days a week (for example, Monday to Friday).
• An equivalent working-time system in which the employee's working time may be extended to, for example, 12 hours; in this case, the employee should work less on another day or have a day off (to compensate for this longer working...
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