Loss of Autorisation of the Company Trade Union Organization Impact on Company Sources of Labor Law Selected Issues

Abstract

The amendment of 5 July 2018 introduced some changes to the Trade Unions Act of 1991 in the scope of the rules for the acquisition and loss of legal status of a company trade union by trade unions in the workplace. The legislator extended the catalogue of events resulting in the loss of the status of a company trade union organization and established a juridical procedure for verifying the number of trade union members indicated in the information presented to the employer. These amendments were aimed at eliminating the state of uncertainty resulting fromthe existing regulations. However at the sametime, the legislator did not regulate the legal consequences of losing the status of a company trade union organization in relation to the sphere ofcompany sources of labor law. The author notices the legal gap in this field and related interpretation problems, indicating the need for regulating this issue by the legislator