NEWS

11/05/2018

11:07

Brejza:

We Dealt With Law Breaking, Introduction of a System of Monthly Bonuses

Michał Olech

Brejza: We Dealt With Law Breaking, Introduction of a System of Monthly Bonuses

- Three months ago, I exposed a system of second salaries, regularly paid under the guise of awards, special bonuses for PiS politicians. A few days ago, I received information from the Chief Labour Inspector, which I find shocking. Earlier, we pointed out that even if PiS politicians wanted to give these second salaries a legal guise, claiming they were awards, there should have been justifications and decisions. An award is individual in nature, and PiS politicians should have been informed about it. It turns out there are no justifications and no documentation. Furthermore, Minister Szrot replied that these awards were not awards within the meaning of Article 105 of the Labour Code. This is very important. They were not awards in the sense of labour law. Article 105 obliges the authority to notify the employee, the minister, and to gather documentation in the files of each PiS politician employed in a ministerial position. I received a response from the Chief Labour Inspector. It turns out that he claims something completely different than Minister Szrot: annotations concerning the awarding of bonuses should in this case be found in personal files, located in individual ministries - stated Krzysztof Brejza at a briefing in the Sejm.

- A complete discrepancy. Minister Szrot - they were not awards under [Art.] 105, there are no annotations, no justifications. The Chief Labour Inspector - a body specialized in controlling such cases - states that this documentation, justifications, everything should have been gathered in employee files, which indicates that we were dealing with law breaking, the introduction of a system of monthly bonuses. What's more, they don't want to say how much they paid themselves in 2016 - added the PO MP. He emphasized that the second salaries were paid without legal basis, there is no justification or documentation, and the awarded individuals were not informed about it. In his opinion, the money should be returned to the budget.

Michał Olech