Advising employers

Every employer encounters problems such as changing tax regulations, newly created legal obligations and confusing, mixed messages from the case-law of the Polish courts, especially as regards employee benefits, taxes and other deductions.

Our multi-disciplinary team of experts includes tax advisors, experienced lawyers and accountants, which enables us to develop individual, practical solutions that meet the particular needs of your company.

How can we help?

Tax advice

Advising on tax-efficient planning of employee and executive remuneration structures.

Incentive programmes

Implementing optimal ways to remunerate employees (or persons employed on another basis), including incentive programmes;
Helping to draft communications with participants of incentive programmes, including by preparing information materials and presentations for participants, explaining the principles and consequences of the programme;
Providing day-to-day support if problems arise in the course of the programme’s operation, including informing the company of ongoing changes in legislation, tax interpretations or jurisprudence which may affect the operation of the programme.

Review of the company’s employment structure and correctness of PIT and ZUS settlements

Reviewing the company’s procedures, identifying areas of risk and providing recommendations on how to reduce them.

ZUS and PFRON advisory services

Identifying areas of potential ZUS savings and developing solutions to avoid overpaying social security contributions;
Supporting PFRON issues, including reducing the costs related to PFRON contributions.

Reducing criminal liability

Developing control mechanisms to reduce the risk of tax law misconduct;
Recommending how to define the duties of individual persons holding managerial positions in the company in internal regulations, resolutions, etc.

Labour law and HR advice

Providing day-to-day advice on labour law and HR issues.

Management recruitment

Drafting, negotiating and terminating contracts with managers.

Pension schemes

Advising on the choice of pension scheme.

Managing relations with trade unions and employee representatives

Representing and supporting employers in their relations with employee representatives, e.g. during restructurings, collective redundancies, company regulations, collective agreements or in collective disputes, strikes or protest actions.

Protection of business secrets, copyrights

Helping to prepare and implement documentation to protect business secrets and non-compete obligations;
Helping to manage matters related to intellectual property created by employees and coworkers.

Personal data protection, monitoring and employee records

Auditing operations from a data protection law perspective (including compliance with RODO and sector-specific legislation) (implementation and post-implementation audit);
Reviewing new business processes and IT solutions from the perspective of compliance with data protection legislation;
Preparing and reviewing internal documentation on personal data processing, including privacy policies;
Advising on online data processing (e-commerce, cookies, login platforms, cloud);
Advising on various aspects of personal data security, including data breach, securing data outsourcing from contract negotiation to information security issues;
Conducting training on data protection (e.g. data protection in employment, data protection in public procurement, data protection in IT, data protection in marketing).

Conflict management in the organisation

Preparing and implementing procedures and programmes to prevent conflict, discrimination or bullying and to deal with the emergence of such phenomena;
Helping to manage conflict in the organisation (training for managers; anti-discrimination and anti-mobbing procedures);
Supporting the work of internal committees set up by employers to investigate reported violations.

Dispute resolution

Helping to resolve disputes with employees – from assessing an employee’s claims to preparing a case for trial and securing am advantageous court judgment.

Posting of employees and migration advice

Supporting all legal aspects related to the posting and global mobility of employees and businesses;
Planning immigration processes;
Helping to legalise the stay or employment of foreigners (visas, residence/work/residence permits);
Handling administrative matters in connection with the posting/migration of employees (obtaining PESEL, NIP, registration obligation, etc.);
Developing a global corporate mobility policy and TAX equalisation;
Auditing your company’s immigration practices;
Coordinating social security schemes (including ZUS A1).

HR and payroll services

Helping to calculate salaries for employees with employment contracts and those with civil law contracts;
Managing employee documentation;
Liaising with the tax offices and ZUS on your behalf.