Wojewódka i Wspólnicy Sp. k. is a Warsaw based law office specializing in helping employers and service providers in the field of collective and individual labor law as well as pension benefits.
The Law Firm’s legal advisors provide legal assistance mainly to medium and large employers, in most Polish companies and foreign corporations present in Poland.
The Law Office has extensive experience in the following areas:
preparation of projects and negotiating internal labor law acts (work and pay regulations, collective agreement, agreements with trade union organizations);
individual employment relationships (employment contracts, training contracts, non-competition and issues related to parental rights of employees);
carrying out restructuring changes (transfer of the workplace under Article 231 of the Polish Labor Code, collective redundancies);
support the Employer during the negotiations with trade unions, employee`s council and other employee`s representatives;
procedural labor law and representation of the employer before courts and other external bodies (Poviat Employment Agency in the case of collective redundancies, the National Labor Inspectorate in the case of the Collective Labor Agreement, the Polish Financial Supervision Authority in the case of an employee pension scheme);
due diligence in the scope of labor law;
advice concerning the establishment and running of voluntary forms of saving for retirement at the Employer`s, including in particular Employee Pension Scheme (PPE) and Employee Capital Plans (PPK).
Currently, the Law Firm has two branches – the headquarters in Warsaw and an office in Poznań – where it employs legal advisors, members of the District Chambers of Legal Advisors in Warsaw, Poznań, Lublin and Kielce, as well as legal advisor trainees and other substantive and administrative employees. The work of the Law Firm is managed by Marcin Wojewódka Ph.D, a specialist in the field of the pension system, who has been dealing with this topic in practice since 1998. Marcin Wojewódka served as Vice-President of the Management Board of the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) in 2016-2017. Currently acting President of the Management Board of PKP CARGO S.A. – the leading operator of rail freight transport in Poland and one of the market leaders in the European Union.