Features defining remote work and the procedure for entrusting it, in the light of the Covid Act of 2 March 2020 and the draft Act amending the Labour Code of 2021

Abstract

The subject of the study is the analysis of the features defining remote work, in the light of the Act of 2 March 2020. The act establishes special solutions related to the prevention, counteracting and combating COVID-19, its subsequent amendments and the draft amendment to the Labour Code, the purpose of which is to comprehensively regulate remote work on the basis of this act. The article indicates and discusses the basic structural elements of the currently applicable and the new definition of remote work, against the currently applicable definition of teleworking. In the second part of the study, attention was drawn to the ways of entrusting remote work by agreement between the parties and by order of the employer. The author discusses obligation to consider the employee’s request, the rules for concluding an agreement on the implementation of telework and the conditions for the employee’s withdrawal from remote work and his protection in this situation.