Is the Existing Model of Preventing the Abuse of Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in Poland and Germany Sufficient in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Kinga Moras-Olaś

Is the Existing Model of Preventing the Abuse of Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in Poland and Germany Sufficient in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Publication date: 05.12.2022

Studies on Labour Law and Social Policy, Volume 29 (2022), Volume 29 Issue 4, pp. 445 - 456

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444654SPP.22.037.16582

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Is the Existing Model of Preventing the Abuse of Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in Poland and Germany Sufficient in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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The need to prevent the abuse of fixed-term employment contracts, having its legal basis in the framework agreement on fixed-term work, implemented by Council Directive 99/70/EC, may have been weakened by the tendency to become more flexible in the face of the socio-economic conditions related to the coronavirus pandemic. From the point of view of an employee, it is important to be employed under an employment contract, ultimately for an indefinite period. Long-term employment on a temporary contract is associated with the phenomenon of precarization of employment and leads to segmentation in the labour market. The purpose of this paper is to answer the questions of whether the state of pandemic affects in some way the possibility of concluding fixed-term employment contracts, in particular whether it can constitute an objective reason justifying the conclusion of such an employment contract.

ASJC: 3308, JEL: K31

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umowa o pracę na czas określony, COVID-19, obiektywne powody; fixed-term employment contract, objective reasons

fixed-term employment contract, COVID-19, objective reasons

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Information: Studies on Labour Law and Social Policy, Volume 29 (2022), Volume 29 Issue 4, pp. 445 - 456

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4467/25444654SPP.22.037.16582

Article type: Original article

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Is the Existing Model of Preventing the Abuse of Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in Poland and Germany Sufficient in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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Is the Existing Model of Preventing the Abuse of Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in Poland and Germany Sufficient in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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Kinga Moras-Olaś

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Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

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