Longer Seniority: Self-Employment and Mandate Contracts Count Towards Employee Rights
This law changes the rules for calculating employment seniority, which may increase your employee rights. From now on, periods of running your own business, working under a mandate contract, agency contract, or even working abroad, can be included in your overall employment seniority. This means you may gain access to seniority-dependent benefits faster.
Key points
Periods of self-employment, work under a mandate contract, agency contract, and documented gainful work abroad, among others, will now count towards employment seniority, which determines your rights.
Longer employment seniority can mean better entitlements for you, such as a longer notice period (for new contracts), higher severance pay, or jubilee awards, if such benefits are provided by your company.
Periods of service in many uniformed formations (e.g., Police, Border Guard) and periods of paid employment for convicts (excluding specific work contracts) will also be included in employment seniority.
To have these periods counted, you will need to present appropriate documents to your employer, including certificates from ZUS confirming contribution payments or insurance coverage.
The law comes into force on January 1, 2026.
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