Author in the following article presents the problems of processing personal data relating to qualifications of persons applying for employment. The analysis is conducted from the perspective of protecting the public and social interest, as well as the interests of employers-entrepreneurs. She draws attention to the need to distinguish between employee qualifications (competences) and a narrower concept of professional qualifications.

The Author of the following article presents the topic of employee's reduced working hours' impact (on the basis of collective agreements and other solutions in anticrisis shield) on social allowances. She analyses the introduced COVID's regulation to minimize its losses for people performing parental and tutelary roles. The Author also casts in doubt the sense of the continuation of maintaining the current wording of article 40 of the Act on social allowances.