“In the first week from the Ministry of Family, Labor and Social Policy launching recruitment for piloting shortened working time while maintaining remuneration 150 complete applications were submitted to the project. The next 694 is in the system during preparation” – informs the labor department.
Reminds that employers can submit applications until September 15.
Four -day work week. There are willing companies
“These numbers show that There are employers in Poland who want to take advantage of this unique chance to shorten the working time while maintaining remuneration “ -says Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk minister of the family, work and social policy.
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The ministry emphasizes that recruitment for pilot is conducted in open mode – the order of submitting applications is irrelevant, and all projects will be assessed according to the same criteria. The program is addressed to both micro, small and medium -sized enterprises, as well as to large companies and public institutions. Thanks to this, entities with a varied scale of activity can use the pilot, which will check how the solution works in different organizational conditions.
Funds intended for piloting come from the labor fund reserve. Financing will include Organizational and technological changes consisting in improving the processes used in the organization, employee training or co -financing their remuneration during the program.
Four -day work week. Pilot schedule
The pilot has a budget of PLN 50 million for 2025–2027. The maximum support value for one project is PLN 1 millionwhere The cost per one employee covered by the program may not exceed 20 thousand. zloty. In 2025 alone, PLN 10 million was allocated to the implementation of the project.
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The submitted projects must include at least half of employees employed with a given employer, guarantee the maintenance of remuneration and employment stability. The ministry does not impose one solution – employers can test different models: Four -day work week, shorter days, longer holidays or flexible hours of starting work.
The list of qualified projects will be announced until October 15, 2025. The program was scheduled in three stages: preparatory (by the end of 2025), test (all of 2026) and a summary, which will end in May 2027.
