Economically Dependent Standard as a Criterion of Employment Rights for Semi-Employed Workers in Poland

Łucja Kobroń-Gąsiorowska

doi:10.18778/0208-6069.101.09

Authors

Łucja Kobroń-Gąsiorowska Pedagogical University of Cracow, Institute of Law and Economics https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8669-452X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18778/0208-6069.101.09

Keywords:

concept of worker, scope of application of labour law, personal work, economically dependent workers, self-employed worker

Abstract

The current legal status protects only employees within the meaning of Art. 2 of the Labor Code, and in a small part of contractors, it contributes to the deterioration of the situation of semi-dependent/self-employed workers, resulting in effects that are entirely opposite to the intended ones, i.e., the inclusion of the axiology of the protective function into non-employee forms of work. Poland does not have its own scope of protective provisions similar to the labor code provisions that would apply to economically semi-dependent/self-employed workers. In this article, is analyzed the concept of the economically semi-dependent/self-employed as a starting point for granting them certain employment rights. Two main conclusions can be drawn: first, the economically semi-dependent self-employed is not an intermediate category between workers and the self-employed but a subcategory of the self-employed. Secondly, failure to grant them protection by Polish labor law will have a negative impact on the extension of collective rights of the self-employed.

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