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Prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Gersdorf
ORCID: 0000-0001-7856-4613

Professor of law, the Head of the Department of Labor Law and Social Policy at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw. From 2008 – Judge of the Supreme Court, until 2020 – 1st President of the Supreme Court. Before her judicial nomination, she worked as a legal advisor. Author and co-author of over 300 publications in the field of labor law, commercial law and cooperative law, including the monograph Employment Law, comments, articles, glosses and others. She is the editor-in-chief of Praca i Zabezpieczenie Społeczne and a member of the editorial board of Przegląd Sądowy.

 

List of selected publications

Monographs and books:
Prawo zatrudnienia (Law of employment). Warsaw 2013.
Zatrudnieni i zatrudniający na aktualnym rynku pracy (The employees and the employers in contemporary labor market) (as scientific editor). Warsaw 2012.
Kodeks pracy. Komentarz (Labor Code. A commentary) (co-authors K. Rączka and M. Raczkowski), several editions.
Ustawa o służbie cywilnej. Komentarz (Civil Service Act. A commentary)) (co-authors J. Jagielski and K. Rączka). Warsaw 2010.
Umowa o pracę, umowa o dzieło, umowa zlecenia (Work contract, contract for specific work, contract of mandate). Warsaw 1993.
Zawarcie umowy o pracę (Conclusion of work contract). Warsaw 1985.

Articles:
Stosunek służbowy a stosunek pracy – ekspansja czy poszukiwanie równowagi? (Labor-based relationship and work relationship – expansion or quest for balance?) (co-author M. Raczkowski) [in:] Prawo administracyjne wobec współczesnych wyzwań. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana profesorowi Markowi Wierzbowskiemu (Administrative law and the challenges of modern-day. Commemorative book dedicated to Professor Marek Wierzbowski). Warsaw 2018.
Charakterystyka umów o pracę (Characteristics of work contracts ) [in:] System prawa pracy. Vol. II. Indywidualne prawo pracy. Część ogólna (Labor law system. Vol. II. Individual labor law. General section), G. Goździewicz (ed.). Warsaw 2017.
Interakcje prawa cywilnego i prawa pracy na przykładzie klauzuli konkurencyjnej po ustaniu zatrudnienia (Interactions of civil law and labor law. The example of non-competition clause after termination of employment) [in:] Prawo pracy. Między gospodarką a ochroną pracy. Księga jubileuszowa prof. Ludwika Florka (Labor law. Between the economy and labor protection. Commemorative book dedicated to Professor Ludwik Florek), M. Latos-Miłkowska and Ł. Pisarczyk (eds). Warsaw 2016.
Znaczenie wykładni sądowej dla kształtowania stosunków pracy w czasach transformacji gospodarczej i kryzysu (Significance of court interpretation for shaping of work relationships in the times of economic transformation and crisis) [in:] Rola orzecznictwa w systemie prawa (The role of judicature in the system of law), T. Giaro (ed.). Warsaw 2016.
Abstrakcyjna kontrola sądowa porozumień zbiorowych prawa pracy (Abstract court audit of collective agreements in labor law) (co-author M. Raczkowski) [in:] Sine ira et studio. Księga jubileuszowa dedykowana sędziemu Jackowi Gudowskiemu (Sine ira et studio. Commemorative book dedicated to judge Jacek Gudowski). Warsaw 2016.
Renesans wypowiedzenia zmieniającego w praktyce i judykaturze Sądu Najwyższego (Renaissance of amending notice in practice and judicature of the Supreme Court) [in:] Praca i Zabezpieczenie Społeczne, No. 2, 2014.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0032-6186.2023.10.3
JEL: K31

The concept of the workplace and working time is considered to be crucial for establishing the existence of an employment relationship, although in the nomadic model is equally crucial to deprive work of attachment to a place and blur time boundaries – so as to adjust it to individual preferences. This undoubtedly also has consequences for the element of subordination, especially with its construction adopted in Poland, because those one of the most important spheres of power of the employer – place and time – are almost eliminated in the nomadic model. The nomadic model is proliferating thanks to the ubiquity of personal digital technologies and information infrastructures coupled with changing work norms. This model and less radical models of work performed by means of distance communication certainly do not determine the direction of employment law development, but their context prompts reflection in what direction labor law should go and what is the area of research that should be undertaken, so to shape the labor law system in a way that meets the needs of business.

Keywords: employment relations; digital era; working time; workplace; subordination; nomadism; digital nomads; future of employment law; obvious cathegories