This article provides a legal analysis of employee outsourc­ing as one of the atypical forms of employment present in the contemporary labour market. Particular attention is given to situations in which outsourcing – understood as the delegation of tasks to an external entity, often in­volving the transfer of workers and the performance of work within the client’s organisational structure – may lead to the circumvention of labour law provisions and to the recharacterization of the de facto legal relationship as an employment relationship. Drawing on case law, le­gal scholarship and principles of legal interpretation, the article identifies the boundaries of legality in so-called employee outsourcing and the legal risks associated with its misuse. The aim of the publication is not only to of­fer a doctrinal and case-law analysis, but also to formulate practical conclusions for businesses relying on external service providers.

The article examines the regulatory framework governing the employee’s right to the protection of family life under international law and European Union law. Its objective is to assess the extent to which existing legislative instruments — in particular Article 8 ECHR, the ICCPR, ILO conven­tions, Council of Europe standards and EU secondary legis­lation — provide effective protection of workers’ family life. The article presents the principal legal regulations and the relevant lines of jurisprudence relating to the protection of the employee’s right to family life, indicating both the scope of state obligations and the nature of the rights conferred on workers.

In the article it is discussed the issue of personal data protection of participants in internal anti-harassment proceedings, including primarily data obtained in a secondary manner. In particular, the author analyses the employer's information obligation towards participants in internal anti-harassment proceedings resulting from Article 14 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and Council of Europe of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR). The author also interprets the provision of Article 15 of the GDPR, which guarantees the data subject the right of access to data concerning him / her. The analysis of the protection of participants in internal anti-harassment proceedings was also carried out in the context of the proposed changes in the protection of whistleblowers legislation. The completion of the article contains de lege lata and de lege ferenda conclusions resulting from the considerations.