Social Security of the Customs Service Officers in the Light of the Constitutional Principle of Equality Cover Image

Zabezpieczenie społeczne funkcjonariuszy Służby Celnej w świetle konstytucyjnej zasady równości
Social Security of the Customs Service Officers in the Light of the Constitutional Principle of Equality

Author(s): Mariusz Wieczorek
Subject(s): Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Public Administration, Labor relations, Human Resources in Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: service; equality; social security; Customs Service;

Summary/Abstract: The study addresses the issue of social security of Customs Service officers. This occupational group, unlike other officers of so called uniformed services, has a social protection based on insurance technique, which means that in this area it has been made equal with the employees. However, the Customs Service officers are not empoyees within the meaning of the labour law and they are in a work relation regulated by the administrative law. The way of social security of Customs officers has raised objections of a constitutional nature, basing on the allegation of unequal treatment of the uniformed services, concerning excluding customs officers from the circle of uniformed services officers, benefiting from a more beneficial than an occupational social security system. This paper presents the thesis according to which the legislator has not violated the constitutional principle of equality before the law in relation to most customs officers, but only to those among them who carry out the duties generically close to the duties of police officers.

  • Issue Year: 62/2015
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 285-295
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish