Polecenie Ministra Zdrowia w sprawie tzw. dodatków covidowych jako źródło roszczeń pracowniczych wobec podmiotu leczniczego – problemy wybrane
Kwartalnik Krajowej Szkoły Sądownictwa i Prokuratury * 2024* tom 56* zeszyt 4* s. 5-20 * ISSN 2083-7186
Polecenie Ministra Zdrowia w sprawie tzw. dodatków covidowych jako źródło roszczeń pracowniczych wobec podmiotu leczniczego – problemy wybrane
Order of the Minister of Health on the so-called “covid allowances” as the source of employees’ claims against the medical treatment facilities – selected problems
Jakub Zieliński - asesor sądowy Sądu Rejonowego w Łowiczu, doktorant Szkoły Doktorskiej Nauk Społecznych Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3605-5225
https://doi.org/10.53024/1.4.56.2024
URL: https://www.kssip.gov.pl/pobierz_plik/kssip_4_2024_1_zielinski
SUMMARY:
By an order dated September 4, 2020, the Minister of Health obligated the National Health Fund to provide additional funds to medical facilities where treatments were provided to so-called “covid patients,” with the intention of paying additional financial benefits to the medical staff. In fulfilment of the indicated order, the regional branches of the National Health Fund concluded agreements with their subordinate medical facilities regulating the procedures for payment of socalled “covid allowances” to medical personnel participating in the provision of health services and having direct contact with patients with suspected or infected SARS-CoV-2 virus. In the actual practice of the judiciary, a number of divergences can be noted concerning, among other issues, the qualification of contracts concluded by the National Health Fund with medical facilities, the nature of the claim for payment of the covid allowance, or the possibility of applying mechanisms of proportional relativization of the sum of the allowance paid in relation to certain objectivized criteria. In the author’s opinion, it has become necessary to make some remarks on the above subject, directed at systematizing the legal discourse, highlighting the proper lines of argumentation and, consequently, harmonizing the jurisprudence of common courts.
Key words: Covid allowances, Health Minister’s order, labour claims, third-party benefit contract, polish labour law
Bibliographic Citation:
ZIELIŃSKI, J. Polecenie Ministra Zdrowia w sprawie tzw. dodatków covidowych jako źródło roszczeń pracowniczych wobec podmiotu leczniczego – problemy wybrane, Kwartalnik Krajowej Szkoły Sądownictwa i Prokuratury. 2024, t. 56, z. 4, s. 5-20. ISSN 2083-7186. DOI: 10.53024/1.4.56.2024