Labour market services projects 2103-ORP-L-D5PURP

During the classes, topics from the new Act on the Labour Market and Employment Services will be discussed in the context of designing labour market services.

Section VII – Forms of Support for the Unemployed, Job Seekers, and Unregistered Persons

Chapter 1: General Provisions (Articles 69–80)
Chapter 2: Job Placement and Career Counselling (Articles 81–98)
Chapter 3: Skills Development and Qualification Improvement (Articles 99–134)
Chapter 4: Subsidized Employment (Articles 135–142)
Chapter 5: Employment Support for People in Special Situations (Articles 143–146)
Chapter 6: Supporting Entrepreneurship and Job Creation (Articles 147–196)
Chapter 7: Commissioning Tasks to Employment Agencies (Article 197)
Chapter 8: Support for the Long-term Unemployed (Articles 198–200)
Chapter 9: Activation Package (Article 201)
Chapter 10: Support for People Under the Age of 30 (Articles 202–204)
Chapter 11: Additional Forms of Assistance (Articles 205–208)
Chapter 12: Special Programs (Article 209)
Chapter 13: Regional Programs (Article 210)
Chapter 14: Pilot Projects (Article 211)
Chapter 15: Activation Program for Unemployed Persons or Caregivers of People with Disabilities (Articles 212–215)
Chapter 16: Support Program in Special Situations (Article 216)
Chapter 17: Monitored Layoffs (Article 217)
Chapter 18: Benefits for the Unemployed (Articles 218–256)

Term 2024Z:

The following topics will be discussed during the classes:

Labour market services – types. Legal provisions: Act of April 20, 2004 on the promotion of employment and labor market institutions and Regulation of the Minister of Labor and Social Policy of May 14, 2014 on detailed conditions for the implementation as well as the procedure and methods of conducting labor market services.
Vocational Activation Center as a place for providing labor market services. Method of organizing the district labor office.
Employees providing labor market services.
Job placement.
Career guidance.
Organization of training.
Profiling assistance for unemployed people.
Labor market instruments in the context of services provided - overview.
Labor market services and instruments in the context of the services provided - selection of a service and instrument for an unemployed person.
Labor market services and instruments in the context of the services provided - selection of service and instrument for the employer.

Type of course

obligatory courses

Mode

Classroom

Prerequisites (description)

The aim of the classes is to discuss issues related to the directions of updating the labor market, current trends in the labor market, linking education with the needs of the labor market and control of standard labor market services after the amendment of the Act on the promotion of employment and labor market institutions. The student notices, learns and uses theoretical knowledge in practice. Is able to work with a job seeker or an employer looking for employees at a further level of cooperation. Obtains the opportunity to apply the interpretation of social effects in labour market services.

Course coordinators

Lech Antkowiak

Learning outcomes

The student has the ability to design labor market services to the needs of an unemployed person, a job seeker or an employer by using institutional resources and the client.

The student analyzes and proposes actions to serve the interests of a client who is socially excluded due to lack of work.

The student is aware of the resources available at the employment office and how to use them creatively.

Assessment criteria

Pass with grade.
1 absence allowed.
Activity - developing a task indicated by the lecturer: Preparing a set of activities for disadvantaged people on the labor market. The student selects a person from a group of disadvantaged people on the labor market (e.g. a woman, a disabled person, a young person, etc.) and plans a set of activities for him or her to help return to the labour market.

Practical placement

Nie dotyczy.

Bibliography

The Act of March 20, 2025 on the Labour Market and Employment Services (Journal of Laws, item 620) and selected implementing acts to the Act, e.g.:

Draft Regulation of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy on job placement and career counselling provided by labour offices and the Voluntary Labour Corps
https://legislacja.rcl.gov.pl/projekt/12399555

Term 2024Z:

Act of April 20, 2004 on the promotion of employment and labor market institutions (Journal of Laws of 2023, item 735).
Regulation of the Minister of Labor and Social Policy of May 14, 2014 on detailed conditions for the implementation as well as the procedure and methods of conducting labor market services (Journal of Laws 14.667).

Term 2025Z:

The Act of March 20, 2025 on the Labour Market and Employment Services (Journal of Laws, item 620) and selected implementing acts to the Act, e.g.:

Notes

Term 2024Z:

Term 2025Z:

Additional information

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

Description of 2103-ORP-L-D5PURP in USOSweb