The Left submitted its project to the Sejm in September 2025. It concerns, among others: clarifying the mechanism for determining the minimum wage, strengthening the legal protection of wages and sanctions for non-payment. Its authors want, among other things, exclusion from the minimum wage of components such as functional allowances, special allowances or bonuses and awards that are currently included in it. Pursuant to the Act, the minimum wage does not now include overtime bonuses, jubilee bonuses, retirement and disability severance pay, and night work allowances.
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Project of the Left in the Sejm. The Center MP submitted the application
Katarzyna Ueberhan (Left), presenting the project, emphasized that its aim is to restore “the basic sense of justice in the employee remuneration system and more effective protection of people receiving the lowest, basic wages.”
She emphasized that the minimum wage is not a “handout” or a privilege, but a constitutional guarantee of labor protection. — It cannot be that the minimum wage includes various types of allowances – functional, special, but also bonuses and awards. In practice, this means that an experienced, competent employee, often performing additional duties, very often receives at the end remuneration at the minimum wage level, exactly the same as a person without such qualifications or level of responsibility. – said the MP from the Left. She added that the current regulations have been in force for 25 years and do not match reality.
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The bill also proposes adding a new offense of not paying wages for a period of at least three months. This would be punishable by a fine of PLN 5,000. up to 60 thousand PLN or a penalty of restriction of liberty.
MPs from PiS, the Civic Coalition and PSL supported further consideration of the bill in the Sejm. Sławomir Ćwik, an MP from the Center, was against sending the bill to the first reading. He submitted an appropriate request. In his opinion, this is an inappropriate project.
MP Ćwik noted that this project should be governmental, because the topic it raises requires extensive consultations. — The very fact that the project you submitted as a Left club in September assumed an entry into force of January 1, 2026, shows that this approach was not entirely serious, he added. Ćwik said that the regulations lack deeper analyses, e.g. how the changes will affect employers.
The Sejm will decide at the next meeting, scheduled for June 9-11, whether the bill will be rejected at first reading or referred to further work in committee.
