Protection of trade unions’ activists is limited

Trade union protection cannot serve solely to prevent the employer from justifiably terminating the employment contract when such justifiability concerns the employee’s actions, without any connection to the performance of trade union tasks. The purpose of protecting an activist’s employment relationship is, above all, to guarantee the activist’s independence in carrying out their functions. – Kinga Polewka-Włoch comments for Rzeczpospolita.

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