EXPERTISE
Monika is a Polish qualified lawyer (radca prawny) with over 20 years of experience handling a wide variety of labour law issues. Her expertise includes preparing and negotiating employee documentation, hiring at the managerial level, carrying out individual and collective redundancies, and managing relationships with employee representatives. She also advises and leads proceedings concerning workplace bullying (mobbing) and discrimination, diversity and inclusion, seconding employees as part of a provision of services, employment restructurings, configuring remote work arrangements, and counselling on day-to-day employee matters or current HR trends. Monika is systematically involved in M&A transactions, covering employment aspects in all elements of deals. She regularly advises stakeholders in the HR field.
Work highlights*
- Leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, banking: advising on various daily matters, including: employment documentation, terminations, employee relations as well as on matters concerning contentious payments and litigation matters with current and former employees, whistleblowing procedures and matters.
- Shipping and logistics companies: advising on setting up employing company in Poland, advising on various daily matters, including advising in the introduction of remote work on a broader scale (to hundreds of employees), internal procedures, litigation matters, trade unions relations, immigration matters.
- The leading real estate companies in the CEE region: advising on current employment matters including overtime, bonus and benefits matters, social security dues, parental benefits, employee terminations, whistleblowing procedures, remote work regulations.
- Company from industrial sector: advising in respect of terminating employment of key employees, structuring negotiations, preparation of documents, as well as providing ongoing advice.
- Technology company: advising on setting up an IT Shared Services Centre in Poland and on the preparation of all internal HR documentation), as well as providing day-to-day advisory, also with regard to hiring foreign nationals.
* Experience gained prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard
- Education
- Monika studied law at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
- Year qualified
- Warsaw Bar Association, 2012
- Professional Memberships
- The European Employment Lawyers Association
- Polish Employment Lawyers Association
- International Bar Association (Employment)
- Publications
- Parkiet, Mobbing and other undesirable phenomena – obligations and risks of the employer, March 2025
- BPCC Online Magazine, Will the Labour Code’s revamped definition of ‘mobbing’ lead to more employee lawsuits?, March 2025
- Chambers and Partners, Chambers and Partners Employment 2024 Global Practice Guide: Poland: Trends & Developments, September 2024
- BPCC Online Magazine, Is the employer obligated for the oversight of stress management and care for mental wellbeing of employees? Should it form part of a new era workplace relationship framework?, March 2024
- Chambers and Partners, Chambers and Partners Employment 2023 Global Practice Guide: Poland: Trends & Developments, September 2023
- The In-House Lawyer [The Legal 500], What’s on the agenda for HR departments in Poland? The latest and upcoming developments in Polish labour law, August 2023
- Chambers and Partners, Chambers and Partners Employment 2022 Global Practice Guide: Poland: Trends & Developments, October 2022
- Rzeczpospolita, E-elections of employee representatives - an alternative during the pandemic, April 2022
- SPCC Magazine, Remote work: the new reality of labor law, January 2022,
- Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Pracodawca powołał się na odpowiedzialność społeczną i zwolnił pracownika, June 2021
- Remote work. The practical guide, Wolters Kluwer, 2020
- Labour Law Quarterly, Work rotation: retention bonus as a way of retaining the employees, April 2020
- Interia Biznes, Coronavirus and Labour law. The employees are threatened with consequences for the misuse of the special rights, March 2020
- Poland Today Live, Art of attraction: Poland's labour market, January 2020
- Labour Law Quarterly, Remote work: benefits and threats, January 2020
- Ochrona Danych Osobowych, GDPR in M&A deals – how to protect a buyer’s business in a share deal transaction, January 2020
- Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, A breach of competition law? This can also stem from a firm’s HR activities, November 2020
- Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Do we pay quicker for change of proceedings after Civil Procedure Code revision?, October 2019
- Labour Law Quarterly, Could an employee's lack of cooperation in implementing AML banking procedures be a reason for terminating an employment contract?, October 2019
- Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Sometimes there is only a lack of will, May 2019
- Training delivered
Monika regularly conducts trainings covering the following topics:
- introduction to Polish labour law, including for foreign HR directors,
- various topics related to current labour law issues,
- procedures and trainings for preventing bullying and discrimination,
- remote work,
- pay transparency,
- whistleblowing,
- ‘S’ in ESG,
- DEI
- Recognition
- Recognized by Legal 500 EMEA – since 2019
- Testimonials
"Monika Krzyszkowska-Dąbrowska's client service and general level of service is very strong. Monika's level of sophistication is very strong. Her commercial vision is very strong. She always provides practical and timely advice." Chambers Europe 2025, Employment, Poland
"Monika Krzyszkowska-Dąbrowska's client service and general level of service is very strong. Monika's level of sophistication is very strong. Her commercial vision is very strong. She is competent and professional." Chambers Europe 2025, Employment, Poland
"Her client service is always top. She is very meticulous and she always respects deadlines. She always delivers the best quality and she is always very helpful. She is always open and very helpful." Chambers Europe 2024, Employment, Poland
"(..) Monika Krzyszkowska-Dąbrowska leads the practice and has experience handling terminations at management level, as well as individual and collective redundancies." Legal 500 EMEA 2024, Employment, Poland
"Monika Krzyszkowska-Dąbrowska's client service and general level of service is very strong. Her level of sophistication and commercial vision are also very strong. She provides excellent, timely and commercial advice." Chambers Europe 2023, Employment, Poland
"Good ability to listen to the client needs and looking for the solutions that would allow businesses to meet business goals best meeting legal requirements same time. When proposing solutions, Ms Monika Krzyszkowska, as well as our other partners from the legal office, identify potential risks in an accurate and timely manner and explain the situation from the legal perspective in clear and easy way. We also appreciate the ability to indicate market trends and solutions that have been observed on the market, allowing us to choose from the best practices. The way the opinion is presented is always clear. Support is immediate or as quick and possible. Our advisors know well their area of competency and when needed do not hesitate to redirect us to the best contact person or possess the information internally by themselves to serve business client in the most accurate way." Legal 500 EMEA 2022, Employment, Poland
"Ms Monika Krzyszkowska is our main contact person. Her knowledge, culture, listening abilities and advisory quality is on the highest level. Provided opinions and statements are clear and direct." Legal 500 EMEA 2022, Employment, Poland
- Languages
- Polish – native
- English – fluent
