Supreme Court quashes labor court ruling for allowing flat-rate travel allowances to replace statutory daily subsistence allowances.
Poland (PL)
Legislator summary
AI generatedThe Supreme Court quashed the lower court's dismissal of a driver's claim for unpaid travel allowances, ruling that flat-rate payments must approximate statutory daily rates. The plaintiff argued he received insufficient lump sums for 24 business trips abroad, while the lower courts accepted the employer's flat-rate justification. The Court held that substituting a flat rate for statutory allowances is invalid unless the flat rate closely matches the actual entitlement, thereby remanding the case for recalculation.
Legislator headnote
AI generated§ 15 zarządzenia Ministra Pracy i Polityki Socjalnej z dnia 29 maja 1996 r.; § 14 ust. 1 i 2 zarządzenia Ministra Pracy i Polityki Socjalnej z dnia 29 maja 1996 r.: If an employer provides a flat-rate payment instead of statutory allowances, the flat rate must approximate the value of the statutory allowance; otherwise, the employee retains a claim for the difference.