The present study comes as a result of a speech delivered at a conference organized at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University on May 20, 2019, that was devoted to the topic of the Social burden of private ownership: philosophy and law. At this conference, I had a great pleasure of giving insight into the history of employee stock ownership plan in Poland and its contemporary implications. Both when preparing and delivering my speech, I had a growing conviction that the following words of Pierre Legendre, a great French scholar, hold: the law is a discourse about life. Today I already know that the labour law is a unique discourse about life, and each and every one of institutions from the domain of this branch of law (understood correctly, i.e. with due consideration for its constitutional and axiological foundations) attests to it. So does the institution of an employee stock ownership plan. Why is it so? Because the labour law equals social and economic order, meaning the foundations for the functioning of the society and the state. There is no other branch of law that would pervade human life as deeply and for such a long time the labour law. Each successive labour law institution remains extremely closely linked with the remainder of social situations. We can say that it emanates on other society members

Employee Stock Ownership Plan – Polish Approach

The present study comes as a result of a speech delivered at a conference organized at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University on May 20, 2019, that was devoted to the topic of the Social burden of private ownership: philosophy and law. At this conference, I had a great pleasure of giving insight into the history of employee stock ownership plan in Poland and its contemporary implications. Both when preparing and delivering my speech, I had a growing conviction that the following words of Pierre Legendre, a great French scholar, hold: the law is a discourse about life. Today I already know that the labour law is a unique discourse about life, and each and every one of institutions from the domain of this branch of law (understood correctly, i.e. with due consideration for its constitutional and axiological foundations) attests to it. So does the institution of an employee stock ownership plan. Why is it so? Because the labour law equals social and economic order, meaning the foundations for the functioning of the society and the state. There is no other branch of law that would pervade human life as deeply and for such a long time the labour law. Each successive labour law institution remains extremely closely linked with the remainder of social situations. We can say that it emanates on other society members