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Extensive amendments to the Labour Code

Extensive amendments to the Labour Code

On 26 April 2023, an extensive amendment to the Labour Code passed by the Parliament on 9 March 2023 came into force. The amendment is of momentous importance for both employees and employers.

Act regulating pawnshop activities

Act regulating pawnshop activities

On 14 April 2023. The Parliament passed the Law on Consumer Pawn Loans. The aim of this law is to comprehensively regulate the rapidly growing sector of loans granted to private individuals ‘against pledge’ of movable assets and to protect the interests of the consumer as a borrower.

Disposal of Europa Centralna Shopping Center

Disposal of Europa Centralna Shopping Center

On March 29, 2023, in a notary’s office in Warsaw, with the assistance of the real estate law team of the law firm Babiaczyk, Skrocki and Partners, a notarial deed was signed covering the agreement for the sale of the Europa Centralna Shopping Center.

Expansion of compliance offer

Expansion of compliance offer

Responding to the growing needs and expectations of the Clients of Babiaczyk, Skrocki and Partners sp. k operating in an increasingly unstable and unpredictable legal environment, the Law Firm Babiaczyk, Skrocki and Partners sp. k. develops the offer of services in the area of compliance, by carrying out comprehensive audits of enterprises in the field of broadly understood environmental law.

Lawsuit against the State Forests

Lawsuit against the State Forests

Lawyers of the litigation department of the law firm Babiaczyk, Skrocki and Partners sp. k. are representing the firm’s client – a manufacturing company belonging to an international concern – in a dispute with the State Forests against the background of the settlement of bank guarantees. The value of the claims reaches PLN 1,000,000.

January Supreme Court resolutions on procedural redress of grievances

January Supreme Court resolutions on procedural redress of grievances

In January 2023 the Supreme Court adopted two important resolutions relevant from the procedural perspective of pursuing payment claims.