Reduced working hours for selected employees: risk of unequal treatment?

When companies introduce reduced working hours for the same pay only for an arbitrarily selected group of employees, it may lead to allegations of unequal treatment. To mitigate this legal risk, employers must ensure that participants for the pilot programme are chosen based on objective and verifiable criteria, such as the specific department or the nature of the role. Alternatively, a random selection across individual organisational units may be used to reinforce the experimental nature of the pilot. – Kinga Polewka-Włoch comments to Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

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