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Katarzyna is a Polish qualified lawyer (radca prawny), senior associate in the employment practice based in Warsaw, Poland. She handles individual and collective Polish and European labour law, advising both local and multinational clients. For over a decade she has been developing her professional expertise in employment restructuring, with particular focus on staff outsourcing, contingent staffing, cross-border employee transfers, group layoffs and atypical / flexible forms of engaging individuals in Poland, as well compliance in HR area. She acted as clients’ trusted advisor in sensitive dismissals (including of top management and those following whistleblowers’ concerns) and developing solutions for protection of employers’ competitor-sensitive information.

Work highlights*

• Leading European technology company: providing on-going employment advisory to the client for its delivery platform, in connection with client’s exposure to unique regulatory and reputational challenges. Advisory encompassed strategic and detailed guidance on business-sensitive employment matters, including developing and implementing new structure of engaging and remunerating individuals cooperating with the client to be fully compliant with Polish labour laws and fast-changing legal framework for platform workers, as well as conducting internal investigation.
• Renewable energy sector client: advising the client on multifaceted legal matter involving internal investigation and legal ramification of misconduct by former shareholders and executives within client’s Polish subsidiaries, execution of labour law related steps against employees implicated in the misconduct, as well as advisory to the client in legal disputes initiated by former executives.
• Multinational energy company: advisory on various employment law issues, including recognition of the certificates and professional experience of engineers employed in the UK and the EU Member States, occupational health and safety and working time of staff engaged on vessels and offshore wind farms.
• Global professional services network client: advising the client on dual employment model of key employees.
• Numerous fintech clients: advising in establishing the clients’ Polish subsidiaries in Poland and developing their business in their employment aspects.

* Experience gained prior to joining Addleshaw Goddard