REFLEKSJE NA TEMAT USTROJU PRACY
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2002
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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SOME REMARKS UPON LABOUR SYSTEM
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Poland’s experience from 20 years ago shows that the labour system not only is determined by
the prevailing economic, social and political system, but also conversely, any changes within it
affect the global system. It is therefore recommendable to take more interest in labour system in
the area of labour law study and social policy.
The notion of labour law system, although already known in the beginnings o f the 20th c. and
currently applied in the social study by the Catholic Church, tends to be understood in a variety of
ways. Therefore, the author proposes two definitions of the term, one narrower denoting the work
relations within a company and one broader denoting also collective work relations and their
axiological assumptions on all levels as well as the relations serving them.
First, the author delineates the changes in the labour system in Poland since 1918, focusing
upon the labour world’s struggle for the recognition of employee’s status as fi subject in the labour
process both under socialist realism and now, until trade unions accepted the social partnership
principle as the basic principle fundamental for the labour system, and on to the present time
when trade unions have lost their influence and significance. The author then proposes to give all
work crews the right to elect organs representing them, authorized to cooperate with the employer
on matters related with the employees; the author also suggests that employers’ organisations
should be given the same conditions of representing their interests as those granted to trade
unions. The two above proposed solutions must be applied because the Constitution of the Republic of
Poland recognizes the social partnership principle as fundamental for the social and economic
system, which can only be sound and effective if the two above postulates are fulfilled.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 64, 2002, z. 4, s. 1-22.