Pinoys In Poland

Fat/Shrove Thursday ( Tłusty Czwartek in Polish) is a religious tradition, and a very delicious one, which is celebrated by millions of Poles by going to their favourites bakeries. Fat Thursday is celebrated once a year, on the last Thursday prior to Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. Originally, paczki and other sweets were made ahead of Lent to use up lard, sugar, eggs and fruit in the house, because it was forbidden to eat them during the upcoming period of fasting. So it became a common habit to hold gluttonous and entertaining holidays before Lent, and in Poland this means eating Polish donuts and other sweets until you're stuffed. What food is mostly consumed on Fat Thursday? In general, all types of sweet and fatty foods are devoured all over Poland on Fat Thursday, but the two most popular are Pączki and Faworki. What are they? Pączki (Polish doughnuts) Put simply – pączki (singular – pączek) are a Polish version of the doughnut and are the most wi...

These are the presentations used by the Polish National Labour Inspectorate / Państwowa Inspekcja Pracy during the seminar that they have given to Filipino Workers in the Philippine Embassy in Warsaw . For further questions, you can contact the Philippine Embassy at Address: ul. St. Lentza 11, 02-956 Warsaw, Poland Tel.: +48 22 490 2025 Mobile: +48 694 491 664 Hotline: +48 694 736 488 E-mail: Warsaw.PE@dfa.gov.ph Click here for free legal advice on labour law - PINOY WORKERS IN POLAND REGULAR EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS (UMOWA O PRACĘ) Those contracts are regulated by the Labour Code. When you sign one of them you are entitled to paid holidays, maternity and childcare leave, severance pay in the event of collective redundancies and the dole lasting 6 months after leaving your work. Additionally, if you are planning to take a mortgage you would be considered a person with a stable income. However, for employers, this is the most expensive contract so it is not so e...

If you are a foreigner… If you are a foreigner staying in Poland your family may visit you simply by getting a tourist visa. If however they want to stay here for longer, you may have a right to family reunification. This process has a narrow family member definition: it is assigned only to your spouse, so a husband or wife (and your marriage has to be recognised by Polish law) or minor children (biological, adopted ones and other children dependent on you). Foreigners entitled to obtain a temporary residence permit for family members of a foreigner residing in Poland are: the spouse (the marriage must be acknowledged under Polish law); minor children (i.e. those under the age of 18) - not only biological children, but also adopted children or other children dependent on the foreigner and under his parental authority (e.g. a spouse's child from a previous relationship). Note: In case of a minor foreigner staying in Poland without a parent or caretaker with refugee s...

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The Philippine Embassy in Poland has renewed its recommendation to suspend the deployment of Filipino truck drivers to Europe amid reports on exploitation of foreign workers in its transport sector. Last year, Danish authorities rescued 22 Filipino truck drivers found living in “slum-like” conditions in container vans in Padborg, Denmark. Philippine Foreign Affairs officials also said 40 other foreign truck drivers in Germany and Poland were living in squalid lodgings. "In view of the issues concerning the working conditions of Filipinos who worked as trailer truck drivers in Europe, the embassy is maintaining its recommendation for the suspension of deployment of Filipinos for work in the road transport sector," the Department of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Thursday. Filipino job seekers, the DFA said, should only deal with recruitment agencies who practice ethical recruitment and keep the welfare of Filipino workers in mind. At the same time, the DFA r...

Local Transportation in Poland is on a fairly well developed, with an extensive network of buses and trams (and subway in Warsaw). Each city has a different system of ticket fares, so the best solution is to get familiar with the regulations on official public transport websites (see below). In most cities you can buy tickets from machines inside buses and trams (automat biletów) using a contactless card payment. You don't get a paper ticket; if an inspector asks, allow them to scan the card you used for payment.  There are also ticket machines on the street at major bus and tram stops. These accept cash (coins and notes) as well as cards, and issue paper tickets.  You can also buy paper tickets from newspaper kiosks like Ruch or Relay or from street stalls around the central stops. You are responsible to validate your ticket once you get on the bus or tram – if you don’t, you may get a fine from a ticket inspector (inspections happen rarely, but tend to be quit...

The Philippine Embassy in Poland wishes to inform the Filipino community about the consular services for Filipinos will be available on Sunday, 24 February 2019, from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. Filipinos who wish to renew their passports and avail themselves of other consular services provided by Post on a weekday may do so on the said date and time. The Embassy will also commemorate the 33rd Anniversary of EDSA People Power and provide information about overseas absentee voting for the upcoming 2019 elections. It will also be an opportunity for outgoing Consul Maria Alnee Gamble to say farewell to the community and for the Embassy to introduce its new official, Consul Alena Grace Borra Consular Services: Passport Application and Renewal For Requirements, click here Report of Marriage Report of Birth Issuance of Philippine Embassy ID NBI Clearance and others Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines Ul. Lentza 11, 02-956 Warsaw, Poland Telephone: +48 22 490 2025 ...

People from outside the Eurozone can also use their licence provided it is accompanied by the International Driving Permit. This passport-like document has to be paired with your own driving licence and, as in the case of European documents, is valid only for 180 days. After this period foreigners residing in Poland need to either exchange their driving documents or apply for a Polish driving licence. The Philippine Embassy in Warsaw wishes to advise holders of Philippine driver’s licenses applying for conversion to a Polish driving license to secure a certification directly with the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in the Philippines. The requirements for securing the LTO certification is as follows, as per the LTO website ( www.lto.gov.ph ): I’m currently out of the country and I would like to request for copies of my driver’s license records in the Philippines. How can I obtain this?         With reference to your query, hereunder ...

‘Rodzina 500 plus‘ is a family benefit in Poland introduced by virtue of the Act of 1 April 2016 on state aid in raising children.  You can apply for it when you’re a mother, father or a guardian of a minor child. You obtain it: if you have a minimum of two under-aged children receive 500 PLN for their second and next children. When you have two children aged 13 and 11, you will receive 500 PLN monthly. When you have three children aged 12, 10 and 8, you will receive 1000 PLN monthly. When you have a single child aged 10 and your family income per capita is below 800 PLN net, you will receive 500 PLN monthly. ** When you have two children aged 13 and 11 and your family income per capita is below 800 PLN net, you will receive 1000 PLN monthly. ** ** In some cases families are entitled to draw a benefit even if they have only one under-aged child. It’s possible when the monthly income per capita in the family does not exceed: 1200 PLN net – when a family has a di...

Poland’s social security system comprises retirement and disability insurance, accident insurance and illness insurance. Insurance covers, among others, employees, the self-employed and contractors. These individuals are also subject to mandatory health insurance. Mandatory contributions on the employer and employee’s side, in force in 2018, are set forth below: Contribution % of total monthly salary Total Employee Employer Retirement insurance 19.52%*** 9.76% 9.76% Disability pension insurance 8.00%*** 1.50% 6.50% Health insurance 9% 9%* - Illness insurance 2.45% 2.45% - Accident insurance 0.67-3.33% - 0.67-3.33%** Bridging Pension Fund**** 1.5% - 1.5% Labour Fund 2.45% - 2.45% Employee Benefit Fund 0.10% - 0.10% * Partly deducted from the monthly tax withholding ** 1.67 % payable in the first year of the employe...

Tax scale Natural persons in Poland are subject to personal income tax calculated, as a rule, according to a progressive tax scale. Tax rates vary depending on the income earned, defined as the total revenue minus tax deductible costs, earned in a given taxable year. In 2018, personal income tax is calculated according to the following tax scale: Taxable base in PLN Tax more than up to 85,528 18 per cent minus tax-reducing amount 85,528 PLN 15,395.04 + 32 per cent of the surplus over PLN 85,528 For 2019, there is a personal allowance (amount decreasing tax) for all taxpayers whose annual income does not exceed PLN 127,000. This allowance is a credit against PIT (not a deduction from the taxable base), and it varies from PLN 1,440 to PLN 0.01. The tax-reducing amount mentioned in the table amounts to: PLN 1,440 - for a taxable base not exceeding PLN 8,000; PLN 1,440 reduced by an amount calculated using the following formula: PLN 883.98 x (taxable base - PLN 8,000) ÷ P...

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Necessary documents for a foreigner getting married in Poland Valid passport (does not need a translation). Birth certificate (it needs to be translated by a Polish sworn translator). If you are a widow/widower – a translated death certificate of your partner (Polish sworn translation). If you are divorced – a translated document certifying your divorce. A document certifying what will be your last name after getting married – to be filled in in the Civil Registry Office. The document certifying that according to the law of where the foreigner is from, he/she can legally get married in Poland This is known as a Certificate of Legal Capacity to Marry Certificate of Legal Capacity To Marry - Document certifying your legal right to get married in Poland The Philippine Embassy in Warsaw can issue this for you. Below are the requirements: Application form Original plus one copy of applicant’s DFA-authenticated birth certificate issued by the Philippine Statistics Au...

The Net Salary calculators allows you to calculate net salaries for umowa o pracę contracts. You input a gross salary and it'll calculate the equivalent net salary for you. This calculator allows to convert gross to net salary quickly - taking into account the typical factors affecting the take-home earnings. Monthly: http://calculla.com/polish_net_gross_earnings_calculator Annual : http://calculla.com/polish_annual_earnings_calculator Let’s use some example in order to understand how it works. Let’s say that you signed an employment contract, you earn 4 321 PLN gross , and your employment conditions are typical. Your net salary equals: 3 077,02 PLN . Why? 421,73 PLN goes for pension insurance (ubezpieczenie emerytalne) 64,82 PLN goes for disability insurance (ubezpieczenie rentowe) 105,86 PLN goes for sickness insurance (ubezpieczenie chorobowe) 335,57 PLN goes for health insurance (ubezpieczenie zdrowotne) 316,00 PLN goes for a PIT (personal income tax) adv...