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05.04.2024Registered unemployment rate down in MarchThe MFLSP estimate of the unemployment rate recorded at the end of March 2024 was 5.3%, i.e. 0.1 pp lower than in the previous month. Compared to the end of March 2023, the indicator was 0.1 pp lower.
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03.04.20244 April is Early Childhood Care Day. Minister Dziemianowicz-Bąk: We appreciate the work of nursery carers and childmindersThe head of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, announced changes for the profession of nursery carers. The aim is to raise the profile of the profession, to encourage carers to stay in the profession and to appreciate this highly responsible role of caring for children under three.
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02.04.2024The government adopted a draft bill on the protection of whistleblowersThe Council of Ministers adopted a draft law on the protection of whistleblowers at its meeting on Tuesday (2.04). The document submitted by Minister Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk envisages protection for whistleblowers in a work-related context. The law aims to implement the EU directive, which the previous government has delayed for more than two years, exposing the state to financial penalties.
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26.03.2024Additional support for foster families. Minister Dziemianowicz-Bąk: ‘Our goal is the well-being of children and the well-being of the families who care for these children.’Today, the Council of Ministers adopted a draft bill amending the Act on Support for Families and the Foster Care System and the Act on Employment Promotion and Labour Market Institutions submitted by Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk. Thanks to the solutions contained therein, those who run foster family homes and perform the functions of professional foster families will receive salary supplements of PLN 1,000.
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20.03.2024Minister Dziemianowicz-Bąk at the Tripartite Social Summit in Brussels. We are returning there after 13 years of absenceOn Tuesday, 20 March, a meeting of the Tripartite Social Summit for Growth and Employment held in Brussels was attended by the Minister for the Family, Labour and Social Policy, Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, together with the Polish delegation. Poland is returning to this group as an important partner after a 13-year break.
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20.03.2024PLN 3 million to activate the socially excluded in 2024The Social Employment Programme 2023-2025 is a programme of the Minister of the Family, Labour and Social Policy through which social employment entities, i.e. social integration centres and clubs, can improve the quality of what offer to these people.
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19.03.2024ADDITIONAL PLN 1,000 FOR SOCIAL WORKERS. DZIEMIANOWICZ-BĄK: 'A DECENT JOB IS A DECENT LIFE'.At its meeting on 19 March this year, the Council of Ministers adopted a draft law on amending the Act on social assistance and certain other acts submitted by the Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy. In this way, the Government intends to enable the introduction of programmes that will subsidise the salaries of, inter alia, employees working in social welfare units with a gross amount of PLN 1,000.
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14.03.2024'Coalition for Prematurity'. The second meeting of the working group is behind usOn Thursday, 14 March, the second meeting of the 'Coalition for Prematurity', a team for improving the situation for parents of premature babies and children hospitalised after birth, took place at the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy. Minister Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk presented to the public the proposed solutions to be found in the draft law under preparation.
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13.03.2024We need to build public awareness - first meeting of the National Consultative Council behind usIt pained me a lot that in recent years the social dialogue was practically non-existent. We have experts among our citizens, there are so many wise voices in the public space, and politicians were approving plans in secret, overnight, against the people. I believe that those times are a thing of the past, said Łukasz Krasoń, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy, Government Plenipotentiary for Persons with Disabilities, when opening the first meeting of the National Consultative Council after the parliamentary elections.
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11.03.2024Dziemianowicz-Bąk: This is good news for millions of workers. The EPSCO Council has adopted an important DirectiveAt Monday's (11.03) meeting of the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) in Brussels, the Directive on improving working conditions in platform work has been adopted. I am very pleased that this compromise has been reached. This is an important and necessary Directive. It is very good news for the millions of people working via digital labour platforms in the European Union, points out Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, head of the Ministry of the Family, Labour and Social Policy.