Admissibility of disclosing to trade unions information on the amount of an employee’s remuneration in the common employment model (polemical article) Cover Image

Dopuszczalność ujawniania związkom zawodowym informacji o wysokości wynagrodzenia pracownika w powszechnym modelu zatrudnienia (artykuł polemiczny)
Admissibility of disclosing to trade unions information on the amount of an employee’s remuneration in the common employment model (polemical article)

Author(s): Jan Piątkowski, Beata Rutkowska
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: trade union; employer; right to privacy; employee; confidentiality of remuneration; rules of remuneration; equal treatment of employees; personal rights; works council’s right to information

Summary/Abstract: In doctrine and jurisprudence, the prevailing view is that employers are not obliged to disclose to trade unions, at their request and within the framework of trade union monitoring of compliance with the law, information on employee wages. According to the 1993 resolution of the panel of seven judges of the Supreme Court, an employer may disclose such information, but only with the employee’s consent. Otherwise, the personal right of the person performing the work may be infringed. Such an opinion is not convincing. It stands in clear opposition to the law in force. It also leads to depriving the trade union organisation of the right to carry out systemic control of the employer’s compliance with the principle of equal remuneration for equal work or work of equal value (Art. 18(3c) of the Labour Code).

  • Issue Year: 28/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 103-117
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish