The legislation imposing an obligation to implement additional pension plans for employees (called Employee Capital Plans; Polish acronym: PPK) entered on January 1, 2019. 
It requires that the employers select a financial institution which will manage the PPK. The employer decides about selection of the financial institution together with employees’ 
representatives. First employers (employing at least 250 people) will be subject to this obligation since July 1, 2019. 

Highlighted below are the most important dates for such employers.

First contributions by 15 November 2019 
The obligation to make first contributions arises in the month following the calendar month in which the agreement on maintenance of PPK is concluded. According to the legislation, as a rule, contributions to PPK should be made until 15th day of month following the month in which they were calculated and charged. It means that first contributions should be made by entrepreneurs employing at least 250 people not later than on 15 November 2019.

The final decision is up to the participant 
All individuals subject to obligatory social insurance aged between 18 and 70 will be eligible to participate in PPK (as a principle, the individuals aged between 55 and 70 will have to submit a declaration of participation to PPK in order to be covered by the plan). Each person will be entitled to declare to employer in written form that they do not want to participate in PPK (until an agreement on maintenance of PPK is concluded) or resignation from PPK (at any subsequent time). Every four years, until the end of February, employers will be obliged to inform employees who submitted such declaration about the resumption of contributions for them.

Obligations for other employers starting from 1 January 2020 
Since 2020 other employers will be successively covered by the obligation to create PPK. The date in which the act should be applied depends on the headcount, including not only employees, but also e.g. home based workers, people engaged on the basis of agency agreements, contracts of mandate, contracts for providing services, and members of supervisory boards remunerated for performing those functions.