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Act on the Protection of Employee Claims

Guaranteed Employee Benefits Fund: payment of wages when the employer is insolvent.

Summary
FGŚP (Guaranteed Employee Benefits Fund)
Adopted
13 July 2006
Original publication
Dz.U. 2006 nr 158 poz. 1121
Summary up to date as of
October 2026
Full text in ISAP

Key rules

FGŚP in brief

01

Employer contribution of 0.1% of salary.

02

The fund pays outstanding wages to employees of an insolvent employer.

Full text of the act

The current consolidated text and all amendments are available in ISAP, the official database of legal acts maintained by the Sejm.

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Summary prepared by the HLBC team. Status: October 2026. This is general information, not legal advice.

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