TY - JOUR
TI - Prawa i obowiązki stron stosunku pracy w czasie pandemii COVID-19
AU - Rycak, Magdalena
TI - Prawa i obowiązki stron stosunku pracy w czasie pandemii COVID-19
AB - 
	Rights and obligations of parties to an employment relationship during the COVID-19 pandemic

	The article discusses the most important regulations regarding the rights and obligations of employers and employees during the COVID-19 pandemic, both for employees performing remote work and employees who, due to the nature of their work, must perform it at the workplace. In order to counteract COVID-19, the employer may instruct the employee to perform, for a fixed period, work specified in the employment contract, outside the place of its permanent performance (remote work). In the current situation, in principle, the employer may, whenever an employee performs remote work, order it for 180 days from the date of the Act’s entry into force. There appear a number of problems in the field of labour law when working remotely, including how to comply with OSH regulations, how to proceed in the event of an accident at work or control of working time. An employer may commission remote work to only part of the employees, e.g. those who have children. Yet, this should be justified by objective circumstances. The employer should take all available precautions, such as ordering remote work or even temporary closure of an enterprise, if his employees are infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in order to enable State Sanitary Inspection or physicians or himself to take action. During the epidemic, the employer also has the right to carry out preventive checks of employees’ temperature. There is no legal basis for employers to send their employees to quarantine themselves. The employer may also not allow an employee to work without a preliminary and control examination. The last part of the article deals with the so-called crisis agreements concluded with employee representatives.

	ASJC: 3308, JEL: K31
VL - Volume 27 (2020)
IS - Tom 27 Zeszyt 4
PY - 2020
SN - 1429-9585
C1 - 2544-4654
SP - 305
EP - 322
DO - 10.4467/25444654SPP.20.028.12615
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/szppips/artykul/prawa-i-obowiazki-stron-stosunku-pracy-w-czasie-pandemii-covid-19
KW - praca zdalna
KW - pandemia
KW - COVID-19
KW - wypadek przy pracy
KW - telepraca
KW - kwarantanna
KW - prewencyjne badania temperatury pracowników
KW - porozumienia kryzysowe; remote work
KW - pandemic
KW - accident at work
KW - teleworking
KW - quarantine
KW - preventive employee temperature testing
KW - crisis agreements