Time moves from 3:00 to 2:00 in the night of 24 to 25 October, adding one hour of work for night-shift staff in factories, warehouses, hospitals, security and on the railways.
An employee on a contract of employment receives a 100% overtime supplement on the hourly rate plus a night-work supplement of 5.46 zł gross per hour for the extra hour.
Personnel Service calculates 60.07 zł gross at the minimum wage, 79.32 zł gross at 6,500 zł a month and 96.36 zł gross at 8,000 zł a month.
Clocks in Poland switch from summer to winter time in the night of 24 to 25 October, when 3:00 becomes 2:00. Personnel Service analysts say that for night-shift staff in factories, warehouses, hospitals, security and on the railways, the change means one additional hour of work. The extra hour falls in the small hours of Sunday, 25 October.
Under the Labour Code, the extra hour counts as overtime worked during night hours. An employee on a contract of employment keeps normal pay for that hour and receives a 100% overtime supplement on the hourly rate. On top of that comes a night-work supplement of 5.46 zł gross per hour.
Trains on the road at 3:00 usually stop at a station for about an hour, so the whole traction and conductor crew works longer. Personnel Service put a figure on it for train crews.
“A machinist earning about 9,600 zł gross may receive about 115 zł gross for that extra hour.”
The firm also said that traffic controllers, whose average pay was 11,664 zł in February 2026, could receive about 138 zł gross. Health workers employed full time receive a night-work supplement of 65% of the hourly rate. Personnel Service also named nurses, midwives, paramedics, physiotherapists and radiology technicians with a bachelor's or secondary qualification, for whom the minimum base salary has been 8,369 zł gross since July 2026.
Personnel Service's calculations put the extra hour at 60.07 zł gross for an employee on the minimum wage. An employee earning 6,500 zł a month would receive 79.32 zł gross for the same hour, and one earning 8,000 zł a month would receive 96.36 zł gross.
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Night workers in factories, warehouses, hospitals, security and on the railways will work one extra hour when clocks go back from 3:00 to 2:00 in the night of 24 to 25 October. Personnel Service has calculated the extra gross pay for several salary levels.
AI text based on reports by Nasz Dziennik and rmf24.pl. Published .