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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Prof. UŁ Małgorzata Kurzynoga
    PhD with Habilitation. She has 15 years of experience in labour law, specialising in collective, European, and international labour law. She has been employed at the Department of European, International, and Collective Labour Law at the University of Lodz since 2010. She obtained the doctoral degree in legal sciences in 2010, based on the dissertation entitled “The Prerequisites for the Legality of Strike”, which received the award of the Council of the Faculty of Law and Administration and was later published in form of the monograph “The Prerequisites...
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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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  • Prof. UJ Izabela Stańczyk
    Doctor of economics,  in the discipline of management. Izabela has extensive professional experience gained through many years working in HR in a capital group in the following areas: Restructuring and Professional Development, as the Chief Specialist responsible for planning, organization and monitoring the workforce restructuring process in one of the largest companies in Poland; analysis of the internal and external labor market; preparation and implementation of projects: – providing training for employees on  interviews with  a prospective employer and drawing up documentation; – AC workshops for people in positions being liquidated; – outplacement processes, outsourcing, collective redundancies; – labor mobility. Competence Development Centre as the Chief Specialist responsible for the preparation and implementation of projects concerning: providing training, for example on an article of her own on “The role of a manager in HR”; implementation of MBO for managers; – internal and external adaptation of employees; –...
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  • Bartosz Soloch, PhD., LL.M.
    Legal counsel, Bartosz Soloch, PhD., LL.M. Prior to joining BKB, he worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the Deputy Director of the Legal Office and the Legal and Treaty Department. Consul of the Republic of Poland in Berlin. Earlier, at the Office of the General Counsel to the Republic of Poland, he completed the career path from counsel’s assistant through referendary to the counsel at the General Counsel to the Republic of Poland. He also obtained his professional experience at a renowned Polish-German law firm. During his legal career, he advised public and...
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  • Michał Szypniewski, PhD
    Doctor of law, labor law specialist,, assistant professor at the Department of Labor Law at the University of Gdańsk. Predominantly advising employers in situations of workplace conflict, Dr Szypniewski is known for providing practical, cost-effective and long-lasting solutions to difficult employment, labour and workplace issues. A valued expert on the issues of posting workers and employing foreigners. Michał Szypniewski has extensive experience in organizing and conducting training and coaching projects for medium and large enterprises, corporations, for middle and senior managers.. Using skills as an articulate and experienced lecturer,...
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  • Mariusz Lekston, PhD
    Expert in academic employment law. Deputy Rector for organisational and legal matters and human resources policy of the Humanitas School in Sosnowiec. Assistant professor at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Humanitas School in Sosnowiec. Lecturer at the postgraduate studies programme in Labour and Social Security Law at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Member of the Committee of Legal and Economic Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, branch in Katowice. The author and co-author of numerous publications, in particular on law id higher education and science and employee pragmatics, including...
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  • Małgorzata Grześków, PhD
    Attorney-at-law, doctor of law, assistant professor in the Department of Labor Law at the University of Wroclaw. Małgorzata specializes in labor law cases and her practice focus is individual employment relations, professional relations of officers, and protection of whistleblowers in the workplace. She has many years of experience gained working at law firms, and has advised Polish and international clients and provided support for HR departments. She has led numerous projects concerning issues such as optimizing the employee structure, harassment prevention policies, and working time calculation....
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