Rights and obligations of the unemployed - Artykul

If you are unemployed, you are obliged to:

• visit the district labour office on indicated days to confirm your readiness to undertake a job and to be presented with available job offers or other kinds of support offered by the labour office;
• inform the district labour office of the justified reason for your absence at the office on the indicated day within 7 calendar days, the absence is justified if you present a medical certificate or statement from an employer about an interview taking place on that day;
• accept appropriate job offers or other kinds of support offered by the office (e.g. training, trail period); participate in the trial period, training course, vocational training for adults or other kind of support specified in the Act;
• undergo medical and psychological examinations in order to assess your ability to undertake a job; notify the district labour office of participating in a training course outside the district labour office (without the assignment from the labour office) at least 7 days before the training starts;
• inform the district labour office about undertaking employment, other paid work or business activity and about other circumstances resulting in the loss of the unemployment person status or loss of the right to the benefit, within 7 days (also about mandate contract or contract for specific work irrespectively of the amount of the remuneration);
• submit or send to the district labour office a monthly written income statement and other documents necessary to establish your t eligibility for the benefits provided by that office, within 7 days of receiving the income;
• return unduly received benefits within 14 daysof the delivery of the relevant decision;
• return promptly the training loan along with statutory interest, if it was used for purposes other than those specified in the contract;
• report to the appropriate labour office abroad within seven days in case of the transfer of the unemployment benefit;
• provide a certificate of incapacity for work due to illness on the form specified in separate regulations;
• return the subsidy for postgraduate studies if education was terminated through an unemployed person’s fault;
• notify the district labour office in which the person is registered of a change in the address within 7 days and report to the district labour office competent for the new place of residence within 14 days of changing the registered address;
• inform the district labour office about the intended stay abroad or other circumstances that would hinder the readiness to undertake employment (for the period not longer than 10 days in a calendar year).

If you are an unemployed, you have the right to:

• receive assistance in obtaining suitable employment;
• take advantage of the work exchange;
• take advantage of the vocational counseling and participate in activities of the work club;
• apply for training courses organized by the district labour office;
• apply for aindividual training course in order to improve or gain professional qualifications;
• postpone the obligatory visit to a maximum of 10 calendar days per year through the so-called “lack of readiness”;
• apply for  various kinds of support, such as trial periods, vouchers, vocational training for adults, one-off subsidy, start-up business loans and socially useful works;
• apply for public works, interventions works;
• apply for a training course loan or financing the cost of postgraduate studies;
• apply for reimbursement of the costs of travel, accommodation and childcare of a child aged up to seven years old or dependent person in the cases specified in the Act;
• free health insurance.

Legal basis
Act of 20 April 2004 on Employment Promotion and Labour Market Institutions

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