Polish Supreme Court allows collective agreement compensation over statutory law due to semi-imperative norms.

The Supreme Court of Poland quashed the lower court's dismissal of a worker's claim for severance pay based on a collective agreement. The worker argued that the collective agreement, which offered six months' salary upon termination, should prevail over the statutory law limiting compensation. The court ruled that the relevant labor law provisions are semi-imperative, allowing collective agreements to establish more favorable terms than the law prescribes. Consequently, the case was remanded for a new decision on the compensation amount based on the collective agreement.