On 24 September 2025, the Labour and Social Insurance Chamber of the Supreme Court, composed of seven judges, ruled that the judgment of the Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber of the Supreme Court, issued in connection with an extraordinary appeal, composed of judges appointed since 2018, should be considered non-existent and null and void.
The Chamber stated that the court to which the case will be referred after the judgment is overturned as a result of an extraordinary appeal, having considered the judgment of the Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber of the Supreme Court to be null and void, has the right to hear the extraordinary appeal itself.
The resolution was adopted in a case handled by JDP concerning the legal effects of the Prosecutor General’s extraordinary appeal on the limitation period for an employee’s claim for severance pay under the so-called Act on Group Redundancies and the correction of an employment certificate.
The resolution serves as a binding legal principle.
The case is handled by Joanna Ostojska-Kołodziej, PhD, Partner, and Aleksandra Pisarek, Associate, from JDP’s Employment Law Team.
For more information, see the Supreme Court resolution ref. III PZP 1/25.