The applicable provisions of the Act on Medical Activity provide for special rights of employees of certain medical entities in terms of jubilee bonuses, seniority bonuses and retirement and disability benefits. However, they do not regulate the principles regarding the determination of periods on which the acquisition of the right to these benefits depends and their amount. Their determination is left to the employer in the case of independent public health care facilities. In the case of medical entities in the form of a budgetary unit, they are specified in the regulation. The article analyses the impact of the proposed changes to the Labour Code regarding the inclusion of periods other than employment in the length of service on the regulations applicable to employees of these medical entities.

Local government units are entitled to establish independent public health care institutions. They are separate entities with their own legal subjectivity, but at the same time, their functioning is largely dependent on the creating entity and limited by its competences. Independent public health care institutions are managed individually. Legal regulations related to the employment of their managers raise many doubts. The aim of the article is to analyze the employment a manager of an independent public health care institution under the employment relationship.