Clients of our accounting office PRWT often face various practical problems when concluding employment contracts with their employees. Sometimes, seemingly uncomplicated activities, such as changing the employee’s address, cause uncertainty for the employer as to what should be done in this case. Should he take any action? In such a case, is it necessary to change or add an amendment to an already concluded employment contract?

Changing the address of an employee is primarily of practical importance for the employer. By sending documents relating to the employment relationship to the address indicated by the employee, the employer has the certainty (or at least a high probability) that the employee will collect them.

In such a situation, however, the data contained in the employment contract is not changed. It is enough when the employee inform the employer about the change of address (preferably if the employee informs the employer in writing about this fact). A document containing information about the change of the employee’s address should be kept in the personal files. The employee should also remember that he can inform the tax office about the change of address (so that the correspondence from the office reaches the correct address). The employer, in turn, should take care to update the employee’s data in ZUS.