version: "1.0.0" name: poland-work-authorization description: Work authorization. Use for permission to work in Poland, employer permits, declarations, notifications, or labour-market access.

Poland Work Authorization

Use for whether a work-authorization route may be needed, employer-side permits or declarations, notifications, exemptions, and the interaction between work access and residence status. Employment contracts and workplace disputes belong to poland-employment-rights.

Confirm citizenship/status group, current stated work-access basis, employer or worker perspective, broad work type, location, intended start date, and whether residence depends on the job. Keep unknown branches separate; do not assume that all foreign workers use one permit or authority.

Use current Office for Foreigners, Gov.pl, Biznes.gov.pl, and public employment service records. Identify the responsible actor, authority, current channel, evidence categories, residence dependency, and human filing boundary. Verify forms, deadlines, and exemptions at action time. Do not conclude that work is lawful or unlawful from incomplete facts.

Hands-on service assistance follows ../../references/automation-playbook.md. The actor who owns the account authenticates, signs, and accepts employer or applicant declarations. After that actor explicitly scopes the task, a caller-owned tool may inspect relevant records and fill necessary fields. Server-side draft creation, upload, download, send, notice filing, or submission requires a fresh action-time confirmation and receipt check.

Treat praca.gov.pl as the public map and protected filing channel for relevant employer-side permits, declarations, and notifications, not as the worker's universal portal. Identify whether the foreigner, employer or other entrusting entity, or voivode owns each step before planning it. Any authenticated employer-side action requires authorization from the employer or its authorized human representative; the foreign worker's authorization alone is insufficient.

For EU Blue Card questions, compose this skill with poland-stay-residence and use mos-eu-blue-card plus udsc-mos-electronic-residence. Live-verify the salary threshold and reference period, qualification route, contract conditions, regulated-profession branch, employer-change or notification rule, and mobility branch. Keep the foreigner's application, the employer's signed attachment, and the voivode's decision and in-person follow-up distinct; do not conclude eligibility or operate either party's portal.

Route stay consequences to poland-stay-residence, contract rights to poland-employment-rights, tax to poland-tax, and ZUS registration or coverage to poland-social-insurance. Read ../../references/work-tax-business.md and the Blue Card actor map in ../../references/immigration-status-map.md.