About the Law Firm

The law firm Kancelaria Prawna Pogłódek Różański S.C. was founded in 2007 by Przemysław Pogłódek and Maciej Różański who are the founding partners and managing partners. Both Przemysław Pogłódek and Maciej Różański specialise in employment law and labour law, and have extensive experience in legal advice to businesses on matters relating to employment law/labour law and HR policy.

 

It is the mission of our law firm to provide our clients with highly specialist legal advice on employment law, and thus provide them with professional and comprehensive service on employment law in a broad sense of the term and on social insurance law.

 

We provide comprehensive legal advice based on our legal expertise and understanding of the economic reality. By focusing on our clients’ needs and making them our priority, we always offer clear recommendations and assist in their implementation.
 

Our employees have an in-depth and extensive knowledge of the merits and many years of experience gained in the service of businesses operating in various market sectors. We constantly improve our skills and qualifications by participating in and conducting training courses and workshops, as well as by publishing articles in specialist journals. We co-operate with attorneys-at-law, advocates, civil-law notaries and academics.
 

Our law firm serves business operators established in Poland and other countries, mainly in Germany, Slovakia, Spain, France, the United States and Sweden which gives us an international presence. Our services and capabilities, which go far beyond the standard offer, make us a reliable partner and trustee for the largest corporations investing in Europe. On the other hand, our experience and understanding of the business attract holding companies, corporations and other companies investing in Poland who choose us as their legal partner. We give advice to the largest companies in the key market sectors, mainly the automotive-, transport-, oil-, food-, energy- and gas sectors. We also serve local small businesses, which are valuable partners for us. We always strive to ensure that the services we render are of the highest standards in terms of expertise and ethics applicable to the legal profession. We belong to a group of experts of the Silesian Association of Private Employers “LEWIATAN" and we co-operate with the BCC division in Bielsko-Biała.
 

Our team members conduct multiple workshops and training courses on employment law and labour law all over Poland, both for employees of the HR departments and for the management staff.


 

It is with great pride and honour that we announce that our Law Firm received the prestigious title “Orły Prawa” which is awarded to the top law firms. This distinction is a testament to our professionalism and high quality of our services which our clients and business partners appreciate.

 
 

Managing Partners

Przemysław Pogłódek

Przemysław Pogłódek is an alumnus of Adam Mickiewicz High School No. 3 in Katowice. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Silesia in Katowice, in 2001. In 2006, he completed his doctoral studies in legal sciences at the Department of Civil- and Private International Law at the University of Silesia. He also completed postgraduate studies in the field of Human Resources Management and Occupational Health and Safety. He is a licenced specialist in occupational health and safety. He is also a court-appointed expert in the settlement of working hours as well as calculating wages and other benefits resulting from employment. Przemysław Pogłódek was employed at the State Labour Inspectorate for seven years – initially, in the Legal Service Section; after he successfully passed the state examination for employees conducting and supervising control operations, he obtained the qualifications of a state labour inspector. He was the manager of the Information and Promotion Section at the State Labour Inspectorate and he was also appointed to the position of the State Labour Inspectorate’s spokesperson, which he held for four years. He has completed dozens of training programmes in Polish- and European labour law at the State Labour Inspectorate’s Training Centre in Wrocław.


He has been an academic lecturer in labour law for the past 25 years. He has lectured at WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza and at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He has also lectured postgraduate students on labour- and insurance law, HR and payroll management, occupational health and safety management, healthcare units management as well as at Executive MBA programmes. He is also a lecturer at courses preparing for the trainee attorney- and trainee advocate programmes.

For more than 25 years, Przemysław Pogłódek has given lectures on Polish- and European labour law at many best-known and reputable training centres in Poland. He has also conducted his training activity outside Poland, educating business people on European labour law and working time in the European Union member states, mainly in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Spain. He also offers training courses to the members of the Polish diaspora in the United States, notably in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. He is one of several trainers on the nationwide trainers’ list of the State Labour Inspectorate’s Training Centre. He is a frequent guest speaker on TV- and radio shows, as well as the author of numerous publications and research papers on Polish- and European labour law and civil law, in Monitor Prawniczy, Kadry i Płace w Administracji, Wspólnota Samorządowa, Nowy Biznes, Rejent and Promotor.

 

Przemysław Pogłódek is a practitioner with extensive negotiation knowledge. He continuously takes part in a number of high-profile projects connected with negotiating supra-company and corporate collective bargaining agreements, fringe-benefit packages, employee handbooks and remuneration regulations, take-overs, group layoffs and employment outsourcing. As part of his day-to-day service, he supports management boards and HR managers of companies operating in the strategic sectors of the economy, companies with foreign- and Polish capital as well as State Treasury-owned companies. He is an expert in the Silesian Association of Private Employers “LEWIATAN”.

Maciej Różański

Maciej Różański graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Silesia in Katowice. He also completed postgraduate studies in the field of Human Resources Management and Occupational Health and Safety. He is a licenced specialist in occupational health and safety.

 

Maciej Różański is a labour law expert with many years of practical experience gained while holding a managerial position in the Legal and HR Department of a large company. A practitioner who has experience in providing businesses with legal advice in employment law, particularly with regard to working time, as well as the establishment and implementation of in-house sources of labour law (collective labour agreements, employee handbooks and remuneration regulations, fringe-benefit packages, agreements, and procedures). He has experience in negotiations between employers and trade unions/ works councils as well as in resolving collective disputes. He helps companies in the application of employment- and labour law while taking into consideration their business needs. As part of his day-to-day service, he supports management boards and HR managers of companies operating in the strategic sectors of the economy, companies with foreign- and Polish capital as well as State Treasury-owned companies.
 

He has taken part in numerous legal due diligence reviews for the purpose of potential investments, including but not limited to privatisations and take-overs. As regards employment- and labour law, he conducted legal audits for companies, managed merger projects, acquisition of companies or company shares.
 

He is also an academic lecturer specialising in employment law/labour law and social insurance.
 

He is a coach conducting workshops and training courses for employees of HR departments as well as the management staff on employment law/labour law with special focus on working time issues, manager liability, termination of employment contracts, workplace harassment (mobbing) and discrimination. He drafts and directly implements anti-mobbing procedures in companies. Maciej Różański is a lecturer specialising in employment law in many best-known and reputable training centres in Poland.
 

He is an expert in the Silesian Association of Private Employers “LEWIATAN”.

 

Partners

Magdalena Olech

She specialises in the issues of hiring and employment, collective labour law and public administration employee relations regulations.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, the University of Silesia in 2002.

In 2008, she completed her doctoral studies in legal sciences.

She graduated from post-graduate programmes, including but not limited to HR and Payroll Programme at the University of Łódź. In addition, she completed numerous training courses on the in-house social benefits fund, the employee capital schemes, the employer’s cooperation with the trade unions and others.

She worked for the State Labour Inspectorate for 17 years. She started as a specialist in the Legal Section at the Regional Labour Inspectorate in Katowice; upon passing the state exam, she became a labour inspector. Her core responsibilities included drafting legal opinions as well as preparing administrative decisions and other decisions for the regional labour inspector. Throughout her career in the Regional Labour Inspectorate in Katowice, she drafted more than 600 legal opinions, the majority of which addressed non-standard sets of facts. She also represented the State Labour Inspection before administrative courts. In her controlling activity, she focused on the issues relating to the working time, as well as the calculation and payment of wages and salaries, and cooperation between the employer and the trade unions.

Her personal professional interests focus on the self-government- and civil service labour law, as well as in-house social activity. She is also well-versed in legal regulations relating to the personal data protection and employee capital plans.

She conducted more than 700 training courses, workshops and conferences, including but not limited to those as part of Kongres Sekretarzy [Secretary Congress], Fora Sekretarzy [Secretary Forum], Fora Pracowników Kadr [HR Employees Forum], all of which operate all over Poland at Fundacja Rozwoju Demokracji Lokalnej im. Jerzego Regulskiego (FDRL) [Jerzy Regulski Local Democracy Development Foundation]. She cooperates with reputable training companies, including FDRL or the Development and Implementation Centre of the State Forests. In her training activity, she focuses primarily on the practical aspect of the law application which allows her to develop optimum ways of sharing knowledge.

She has been an academic lecturer since 2010; she lectures at the WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza.

Currently, she conducts training courses on the social activity, employer’s cooperation with social partners, the employer’s and management staff’s liability under criminal law and misdemeanour law.
 

Katarzyna Różańska

She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Silesia in Katowice and from the Faculty of Management at the Academy of Economics (currently: University of Economics) in Katowice. Upon completing her legal studies, she started and completed her advocate training. She is a member of the Katowice Bar Association.


She gained her experience and professional practice required to service businesses and individuals during the many years of working for law firms, where she provided independent service to businesses and individual clients on various aspects of law.


With such practical exposure, she was able to gain experience in comprehensive legal assistance to businesses and specialise in particular in employment law/labour law. An advocate with many years of practice in running court cases before common courts and before the Supreme Court.


In the Law Firm, she predominantly deals with the service of businesses and individual clients, representing them in court cases concerning employment law/labour law and social insurance issues, including but not limited to: appeals against statements on termination of employment contracts; workplace harassment cases; cases for determining the features of the employment cases; claims on account of workplace accidents; settlement negotiations; claims for damages of parties to the employment contracts; analyses of the employment relationship; appeals against the decision of the disability pension body.


Her personalised approach to the client’s issues, her engagement, knowledge of theory and extensive practical experience are the proof of her high subject-related qualifications and her ability to effectively run complex cases.

Dariusz Dwojewski

Dariusz Dwojewski graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Silesia in Katowice. He also received his Doctor of Law title at that university, at the Employment Law Department.

 

For the past 25 years, he has specialised in employment law in the broad sense, including both the general employment law, as well as employee regulations and regulations applicable to trade unions. He specialises in the education law in relation to the employment relationship of teachers and local government employees. 

 

He cooperates with various companies and training institutions, conducting training courses on employment law/labour law, including education law and social insurance law. He also runs classes on labour law in post-graduate programmes.
 

He authored numerous publications on labour law topics. His articles and opinions are published in Gazeta Samorządowa and Rachunkowość Budżetowa, as well as in various online service platforms.
 

Dariusz Dwojewski is a prominent and outstanding expert in employment law/labour law with years of practical experience gained while cooperating with nationwide trade union organisations, and while working as chief specialist in a local government.

 

A practitioner who has broad experience in providing legal advice in employment law/labour law, particularly with regard to  establishing, amending and terminating employment relationships and with regard to collective labour law.  

Monika Przewłocka

Attorney-at-Law. She graduated from the Law and Administration Faculty, University of Silesia in Katowice. She has ten years of service at the Legal Department of the State Labour Inspection. Her core responsibilities included drafting legal opinions as well as preparing administrative decisions and other decisions for the regional labour inspector. She also represented the State Labour Inspection before administrative courts and common courts of law.

 

She reviewed the most difficult cases relating to the inspection by the State Labour Inspection, and employers’ liability for offences against employee rights. 
 

She was also attorney-at-law at the State Labour Inspection.

 

She specialises in the service of businesses on employment law/labour law. She gives advice on employment law/labour law in local government units and health care units.

 

She deals primarily with topics relating to the working time, trade unions, the social labour inspection, works councils and the in-house social benefits fund. For many years, she has represented employers in disputes relating to employment law/labour law.

 

She was a participant and lecturer at dozens of training programmes at the State Labour Inspectorate’s Training Centre in Wrocław.
 
She has been an academic lecturer at the WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza. She gives lectures on employment law/labour law and administrative law at undergraduate- and graduate studies and at post-graduate programmes.    
 
For 25 years, she has lectured as part of training courses at many reputable training centres in Poland.
 

Cezary Pytlarz

A graduate of the Law and Administration Faculty. He was employed by the State Labour Inspection for 15 years, including more than 11 years during which he was responsible for the planning and settlement of inspections of the legality of foreign workers’ employment. As an employee of the State Labour Inspection, he conducted hundreds of inspections of the legality of foreign workers’ employment. He managed the section of employment legality inspection.
 

As part of his work at the State Labour Inspection, he conducted more than 300 training courses, including but not limited to training courses addressed to the employees of the State Labour Inspection, the officers of the Polish Border Guard, the employees of the voivodship offices, the Social Insurance Institution, the district job centres, or trade union organisations). A participant and lecturer at many training courses, workshops and conferences, including international ones, on the legality of foreign workers’ employment. Using his own original curricula, he conducted more than 200 training courses for business people, employers, employment agencies and managers on hiring foreigners; he also conducted more than 50 closed training courses and workshops based on customised curricula tailored to the needs of specific clients, during which he effectively helped the attendees understand the entire procedure of hiring and employing foreigners in Poland.

 

The author of multiple papers and publications on the legality of foreign workers’ employment which were published in the following monthlies: Kadry i Płace w Administracji, Inspektor Pracy. A lecturer on foreign workers’ employment at the State Labour Inspectorate’s Training Centre in Wrocław. A court-appointed expert on the legality of foreign workers’ employment who is entered on the list of court-appointed experts by the Regional Court in Katowice.


 

Taking advantage of his years of practice, he currently conducts training courses and audits of businesses while providing professional and comprehensive legal assistance in terms of foreign workers’ employment and secondment. Upon the order of business entities, he effectively conducted hundreds of proceedings to register statements on entrusting work to foreigners, to obtain work permits as well as work- and residence permits for foreigners in the Republic of Poland. He helps businesses operating on the Polish job market to go through the long and time-consuming procedure for hiring or seconding foreigners.

Teresa Ostrowska-Pisarek

She is a graduate of the University of Silesia, Faculty of Law and Administration.

She was an employee of the State Labour Inspection for more than 30 years. She is an outstanding specialist in matters relating to the working time, the drivers’ working time and the settlement of remuneration for work.

As part of her work at the Regional Labour Inspectorate, she conducted numerous inspections on behalf of the Regional Labour Inspector in Silesia and all over Poland at the order of the Chief Labour Inspector. For many years, she worked as a coordinator of topics relating to the working time. She represented the Regional Labour Inspectorate in the ongoing proceedings before common courts. A participant of panel discussions organised by the entrepreneurs who are members of the Private Employers Confederation “Lewiatan”. She conducted numerous training courses for Górnośląskie Stowarzyszenie Przewoźników Drogowych [the Upper Silesian Association of Road Hauliers].

For more than 20 years, she was a lecturer at the State Labour Inspection’s Training Centre in Wrocław where she conducted training courses for labour inspectors, prospective labour inspectors and third parties.

A long-standing academic lecturer at Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania Bezpieczeństwem in Katowice, giving lectures to post-graduate students.

A long-standing trainer who gave training courses at many reputable training centres.

Of counsel

Teresa Różańska

A lawyer, a labour inspector, and a former long-standing Regional Labour Inspector in Katowice.

 

She got her legal degree at the University of Silesia. She spent her entire career at the State Labour Inspection, where she moved up all the ranks of the corporate ladder – starting from a labour inspector up to the Inspection Head. She managed the largest region in Poland by the employers’ number, a region of strategic importance due to the accumulation of heavy industry and a region with enormous risks to human life and health. She was a member of the Supervisory Board at the Social Insurance Institution in Zabrze, a member of the Curriculum and Methodological Council at the State Labour Inspection’s Training Centre in Wrocław, and a member of the Disciplinary Council of the State Labour Inspection. She took part in the sessions of the Provincial Employment Council and she was an expert in the Office of the Chief Labour Inspector at the Chief Labour Inspectorate in Warsaw.
 

She is an academic lecturer; she gives lectures at the Occupational Health and Safety Management Faculty and at the Labour Law and Social Insurance Faculty, among others.

 

She takes advantage of her years of experience while advising businesses on labour law as well as occupational health and safety matters.

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Comprehensive service on labour- and employment law – legal advice, drafting legal opinions, audits, preparing draft employee handbooks and remuneration regulations, negotiations between employers and employees, and legal representation before courts of law. We encourage you to review the detailed list of our services.

 

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Registered Office

 

ul. Gliwicka 12/12
40 - 079 Katowice

Oddział

 

ul. Sixta 15/6

43-300 Bielsko-Biała

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kontakt

 

Przemysław Pogłódek  + 48 507 17 17 17

 

Maciej Różański  + 48 602 17 82 71

 

e-mail: kancelaria@kancelaria-prawopracy.pl

 

 

Dane do faktury

 

Kancelaria Prawna
Prawo Pracy i BHP
P. Pogłódek, M. Różański S.C.
ul. Gliwicka 12/12
40-079 Katowice
NIP [Tax Identification Number]: 954-260-66-20
Regon [Business Statistical Number]: 240718964

 

 

Bank account

 

BNP Paribas Bank Polska S.A.
ACCOUNT NUMBER : 71 1750 1035 0000 0000 0951 5992


IBAN: PL71 1750 1035 0000 0000 0951 5992


SWIFT : PPABPLPKXXX