Poland's draft law rejected by the European Commission

The European Commission has overruled a demand made by 11 EU member states, including Poland, to drop its proposed equal pay rules for delegated workers in the bloc. Meanwhile, Warsaw has mentioned that the EU’s directive on such workers goes against the interests of Polish companies. In March, the Commission proposed reforms giving workers temporarily delegated to work abroad the right to the same compensation and bonuses as their local colleagues. The revision proposal came after Western countries such as France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands said current laws are unfair as they give low-cost workers from abroad an advantage over their local peers. Poland sends the largest number of workers abroad - nearly half a million of the two million such employees across the bloc.