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  • Professor Krzysztof Wojciech Baran
    He specialises in labour law. He has promoted legal knowledge related to the normative principles governing industrial relations for many years. He has extensive expertise and teaching experience in providing training for human resources personnel. Head of the Department of Labour Law and Social Policy of the Jagiellonian University. Professor Baran is the author and co-author of over 200 publications, including over a dozen monographs, textbooks and commentaries, including commentaries on the Labour Code and collective labour law acts. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of The Labour Law System, a ten-volume publication...
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  • Daniel Książek, PhD with Habilitation
    Leader of the Ranking of Law Firms “Rzeczpospolita” in the field of: labor law and social insurance. Long-standing practitioner and expert in employment and labour law. Daniel Książek has thorough and comprehensive experience in employment litigation. He is a personal legal adviser to Members of Management Boards, Chief Executive Officers and HR Directors of the largest employers in Poland. Furthermore, he acts as a legal consultant for employers’ organizations and trade unions operating in Poland. He is also a Member of Supervisory Boards of equity companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, He was listed...
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  • Wojciech Bigaj
    At our law firm, he is responsible for servicing key clients (corporations) in the field of labour law. He is our main expert in complex projects concerning working time (e.g. overtime settlements), internal regulations (work, remuneration, bonuses), OSH, collective redundancies, civil law employment, company social benefit funds. Wojciech Bigaj is also an experienced expert in litigation. He has already conducted more than 1,000 court proceedings in his career. He is a lecturer in the postgraduate labour law studies programme run by the Department of Labour Law and Social Policy of the Jagiellonian...
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  • Professor Andrzej Marian Świątkowski
    Vice-President of the Social Rights Committee of the Council of Europe, professor of the Jagiellonian University, graduate of Law and Sociology at the Jagiellonian University and of the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia. Member of the IOSS – International Organization of Labour Law and Social Security and the IIRA – International Industrial Relations Association and the Polish Association of European Law. Expert at the European Union Commission for labour law. He is a member of the General Conferences of the International Labour Organisation...
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  • Prof. UwB Iwona Sierocka
    Habilitated doctor of legal sciences and a professor at the Department of Labour Law at the University of Białystok. Her scientific interests focus on issues related to collective labour law, the social security system and the “third pillar” of retirement funds, in particular Employee Pension Plans and Employee Equity Plans. She is the author of multiple publications on labour law and social security. She conducts legal projects in Polish and English .
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  • Paweł Krzykowski
    Expert specialising in managerial contracts concluded with Members of the Management Boards of companies operating in Poland. He advises on cases related to non-competition agreements, non-solicitation clauses, and confidentiality agreements. He advises Clients in cases concerning work time, drafting remuneration by-laws, bonus policies, and work by-laws, and other internal procedures related to employees. He advises Clients on issues related to collective redundancies and voluntary redundancy programmes. He represents employers in labour disputes before courts. He lectures on labour law for bar trainees, and has authored multiple publications on labour law and social security.
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  • Beata Baran-Wesołowska, PhD with Habilitation
    Beata is a Certified Compliance Officer. At BKB, she supervises cases related to compliance, whistleblowing, harassment, and internal inquiry procedures. She also specialises in disciplinary procedures and due diligence audits. She regularly advises corporate clients in the banking & finance, pharma, retail, TSL, and gas & oil sectors. She is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University, and previously lectured at the Faculty of Management at the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. She also earned a doctorate at the Jagiellonian University. She is...
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  • Kajetan Bartosiak
    He specialises in individual and collective labour law, in particular in issues related to individual employment contracts (from recruitment to termination), the employment of members of governing bodies in equity companies, and in employment proceedings and administrative proceedings connected to employment. Author of publications on social security during the COVID-19 pandemic and the duties of the employer during a state of epidemic threat. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. He completed a postgraduate studies programme in commercial companies law, and wrote his thesis on “The employment of Members of...
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