Documents required in order to register in the district labour office - Artykul

In order to register, the following documents are required:

• A passport, identity card or another identification document,
• PESEL number (if granted),
• NIP number (if a foreigner has one),
• All the work certificates that a foreigner has obtained so far in Poland,
• If a foreigner had worked abroad, he also needs the E 301 or U1 form,
• Diplomas, certificates of graduation or a school certificate that is recognized in Poland; 
• Certificates of completion of courses or trainings,
• A confirmation of residence,
• A document that confirms the foreigner’s right to stay in Poland (e.g. a temporary or
  permanent residence permit).

In certain cases some other documents are required to establish the applicant’s rights.

Useful information

You may register at any convenient for you moment, there is no set time for registration.

In order to register as an unemployed, you have to report to the competent district labour office. Registration occurs on the day a set of required documents is submitted in the district labour office competent for the permanent or temporary place of your residence, after certifying the data it contains with a signature in the presence of an employee of the district labour office.

Labour offices made available a possibility of initial providing the labour office with the required information through the electronic registration system, accessible at: www.praca.gov.pl. Then the labour office sets for you a date of appearance, within seven working days from the date of providing the information, in order to let you to hand over all the required documents and register in the district labour office. In case you do not appear in the labour office on the set date, the information provided by you is deleted from the IT system of public employment services. This procedure enables you to book the date of the registration in the labour office.

Upon coming into force of selected paragraphs of the Regulation of the Minister of Labour and Social Policy of 12 November 2012 on the registration of the unemployed and job seekers, which took place on 27th of May 2013,  a new possibility of registration in the district labour offices through the electronic registration system, accessible at: www.praca.gov.pl, appeared.

However the option of Internet registration in the labour office as unemployed person is available if you have either:

• secure electronic signature verified by a valid qualified certificate, in according to the principles laid down in the regulations on electronic signatures, or
• or verified trusted profile on government services electronic platform (ePUAP).

In order to register you are obliged to fill in the application for registration, through the electronic registration system, accessible at: www.praca.gov.pl. In this case the documents required in order to register need to be scanned, and the application need to be signed through one of the types of secure signature listed above.
This procedure does not require your personal visit in the labour office in order to register.

remember!

It is important to keep all of the documents you receive from the labour office, for example the decision issued on the day you are registered, they all may come in handy when you want to verify any information.

Are you missing the employment certificate employer and the company no longer exists, on websites such as www.zus.pl and archiwa.gov.pl you may find search engines that can be used to determine the storage location of personal and payroll records of the bankrupt employer's.

Legal basis

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

Regulation of the Minister of Labour and Social Policy of 12 November 2012 on the registration of the unemployed and job seekers

Development: Editorial team of Zielona Linia