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Dr Mateusz Gajda
ORCID: 0000-0002-3898-0134

PhD, assistant professor at the Department of Legal Problems of Administration and Management, Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw, legal advisor specializing in labor law and social security law.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0032-6186.2025.2.7
JEL: K31, K42

One of the key legislative changes in 2024 was undoubtedly the entry into force of provisions on the protection of whistleblowers, which were implemented into the Polish legal system Directive 2019/1937 on the protection of persons reporting violations of EU law. The adopted regulations are intended to encourage reporting of law violations and, therefore, provide those who report them with protection against retaliation. This article will present the issue of the employer's obligations related to the security of the personal rights of an employee indicated in the statement as the perpetrator of a violation of the law. Although rarely discussed, this topic is as important as the protection of whistleblowers themselves due to the risk of submitting statements based on false information. The main purpose of the article is to analyze the risks associated with such statements, as well as the actions that the employer should take to prevent the violation of the personal rights of a person unfairly accused of a violation.

Keywords: whistleblowers; reporting violations; personal rights; internal investigations
DOI: 10.33226/0032-6186.2024.7.7
JEL: K31

Nowadays, employees more and more often undertake various types of business trips as part of their professional duties. A special category of such employees are the so-called mobile workers, i.e. workers moving within a strictly defined geographical territory. The purpose of the following study is to discuss the principles of reimbursement of accommodation costs incurred during business travel to mobile workers. The authors question the latest legislative changes to the principles of reimbursement of drivers' accommodation costs and the insufficient regulation of the principles of reimbursement of accommodation costs for other mobile workers and suggest intervention of legislator in that regard.

Keywords: mobile workers; drivers; reimbursement of accommodation costs