European Labour Mobility Congress

Stefan Schwarz

President of European Labour Mobility Institute

President and co-founder of the European Labour Mobility Institute. Co-organizer of the European Labour Mobility Congress – the largest cyclical event in Europe dedicated to the posting of workers within the freedom to provide services in the European Union. Member of the Labor Mobilis award jury, which honors individuals who have made exceptional contributions to promoting and supporting labor and service mobility within the European internal market. Entrepreneur, labor market expert, and advocate of responsible business practices. A graduate of the Cracow University of Economics. In 2013, he participated in the roundtable discussions as part of a European Commission project that developed guidelines on respecting human rights in the HR sector. Author of articles on human rights published in the UN Global Compact Yearbook, among others.

Marta Zięba-Szklarska

Founder & CEO, COUNT’em Group AI-driven Employment Compliance & Payroll Transformation

Marta Zieba-Szklarska is the Co-Founder & CEO of COUNT’em Group, a European professional services and LegalTech/HRTech group specializing in labour mobility, cross-border employment and international payroll compliance. With over 25 years of experience, she has advised organizations operating across multiple jurisdictions and co-built one of the leading mobility-focused service providers through the ŚWIAT KADR brand.” Today, COUNT’em Group supports hundreds of employers across Europe and globally, delivering end-to-end solutions covering HR administration, payroll, taxation, social security/insurance and employment compliance, with a strong focus on intra-EU service provision, posting of workers and international workforce deployment. Marta’s work is centered on transforming traditional compliance-heavy processes through automation and AI, while ensuring responsible deployment models, including human-in-the-loop governance, auditability and regulatory robustness. She leads the development of LegalTech and HRTech platforms designed to increase transparency, accuracy and scalability in highly regulated labour mobility environments. Marta actively contributes to the European dialogue on the future of labour mobility, competitiveness of the Single Market and removal of unnecessary regulatory barriers to cross-border services, bridging the perspectives of business, policymakers and enforcement authorities. She is a Certified Court Mediator, lecturer cooperating with leading educational institutions, and an active mentor and ambassador for women’s leadership and entrepreneurship within international networks including Vital Voices Poland, SPK Foundation and InspirNations Forum Foundation. Her doctoral research and publications focus on personal finance planning, social security and pension entitlements, and the use of robo-advice in regulated financial and social systems.

Prof. Herwig Verschueren

Professor of International and European Social Law at the University of Antwerp

Herwig Verschueren is emeritus professor of International and European Labour and Social Security law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He also worked as a civil servant at the European Commission in the field of free movement of workers and the co-ordination of social security schemes from 1992 to 2004.

His research concentrates on European social law and more specifically on the legal position of migrating EU citizens with regard to labour and social security rights. He is the author and co-author of books, articles and reports on these issues. He frequently gives lectures at international seminars and conferences. He is an expert member of the European academic network “MoveS” (Free movement of workers and EU social security coordination).

Marco Rocca

Permanent Researcher in labour law at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and affiliated to the DRES research unit of the University of Strasbourg

Marco Rocca is a chargé de recherche (researcher) in European, international and comparative labour law at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is affiliated with the research unit DRES (Droit, religion, entreprise et société, UMR 7354) at the University of Strasbourg.

He is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant (2022–2027) project “European Birds of Passage – An Empirical Legal Theory of Temporary Labour Migration in Europe”. His current research focuses on temporary labour mobility in Europe, including the posting of workers, and on labour law and social rights within the EU Economic Governance framework.

He has significant experience in European-level sectoral research projects, having worked on working conditions and industrial relations in the meat industry (MEAT.UP.FFIRE), labour and social rights of mobile workers in the live performance sector (MOBILIVE), and industrial relations in the aviation sector during the Covid-19 crisis (VIRAL).

Before joining CNRS, he held three postdoctoral positions: at Hasselt University (Belgium, supervised by Petra Foubert), at the University of Verona (Italy, supervised by Laura Calafà), and within the Excellence Chair on Pensions at Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium, supervised by Alexia Autenne).

Between 2014 and 2018, he taught several courses in French and English, including Belgian Labour Law, Comparative Industrial Relations, Comparative Systems of Employment and Training, and Advanced Aspects of Labour Law.

He obtained his Ph.D. in 2014 from Université Catholique de Louvain with a thesis entitled “Posting of Workers and Collective Labour Law in the EU” (supervised by Filip Dorssemont). He holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Pisa and the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna.

Agnieszka Paszkowski

Associée - DBA- International Business Services

A graduate in Finance and Banking from the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) and in Management and Economics from the University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, Agnieszka Paszkowski brings 18 years of experience in fostering French-Polish collaboration.

Since 2007, she has led the French-Polish department at DBA Accounting Office, providing comprehensive solutions in delegation, accounting, taxation, and social security for Polish companies operating in the French market.

Her dedication to the French-Polish ecosystem includes active cooperation with local administrations such as the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Paris, the Polish Chamber of Commerce, the Ministry of Labour, and the Ministry of Finance. Through these partnerships, she assists Polish investors and entrepreneurs in navigating the complexities of the French market.

David Wernsing

Founding partner of Luscuere & Wernsing Advocaten, Netherlands

David Wernsing is one of the founding partners of Luscuere & Wernsing Advocaten, and specializes in international labour migration. David advises an extensive range of companies throughout the European Union that are working in the Netherlands on the aspects of immigration law, offering holistic solutions.

In addition to advising clients, David frequently litigates against the Dutch government in fine cases, or other immigration cases, which has led to changes in national policies, and also litigated before the European Court of Justice in relation to the posting of third-country nationals.

David is swift and pragmatic when possible, while being profound and tenacious when needed. David is a member of the Specialists Association of Migration Lawyers. He advises on all aspects of Dutch immigration law, with a focus on labour migration.

Zbigniew Bartuś

Journalist and columnist for Forsal.pl and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna

Zbigniew Bartuś – columnist for Forsal.pl and Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, journalist for over 30 years covering economic life, initiator of close cooperation between economic organizations, universities, local governments and business environment institutions in Małopolska, host and moderator of key economic events, originator of the DGP Economic INFORum. He has received scholarships from Reuters and the U.S. Department of State. Winner of several dozen journalistic awards and distinctions, m.in. Economic Journalist of the Year, Grabski Main Award, Kwiatkowski Award, Grand Prix of Małopolska Journalists, nominations for the Grand Press. Member of the Board of the Auschwitz Victims Remembrance Foundation, activist of Rotary International, member of the Alumni Association.

Joanna Narkiewicz-Tarłowska

Managing Director and Tax Advisor at Vialto Partners Poland

Joanna Narkiewicz-Tarłowska is a certified tax advisor and the Managing Director at Vialto Partners Poland. She has 25 years of experience in tax advisory for individuals and social security matters. Before joining Vialto Partners, she worked for over 20 years at a consulting firm from the “Big Four.”

She is a graduate of the Poznań University of Economics (Faculty of Management) and a former scholarship recipient of the Minister of National Education and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Her expertise includes international employee and private individual transfers, international remote work, employment structures and compensation for employees and executives, incentive programs, taxation of employee benefits, capital programs, and other employment-related matters. She advises both Polish companies and international corporations, as well as private individuals. She has personally participated in international assignments in Germany and the USA.

Joanna conducts numerous training sessions and is a speaker at many national and international tax conferences. Additionally, she is the author of hundreds of press and online articles and a recognized expert in various television and radio programs on personal taxation. She is a co-author of the book “Double Taxation Agreements. Commentary” (2011, Wolters Kluwer), as well as numerous tax publications, including a tax settlement guide for 2002 (Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, 2023), a tax guide for Ukrainian citizens for 2023 (Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, 2024), and online commentaries on the Personal Income Tax Act (Legalis, C.H. Beck).

Michał Kacprzyk

Partner, Head of Immigration and Global Mobility Practice at Raczkowski, JD, LLM.

Michał specialises in all aspects of employing foreign nationals in Poland. He also advises on international employee mobility and complex corporate immigration matters at all stages of workforce planning and hiring, as well as on the posting of workers to provide services abroad. His expertise covers the full range of cross-border HR issues. Michał has built one of the largest immigration and global mobility teams operating within a law firm in Poland and is regularly recommended by international legal rankings as a leading practitioner. He is a frequent author of articles published in national daily newspapers and academic journals.

Frederic De Wispelaere

Research expert at HIVA–KU Leuven

His main fields of research are intra-EU labour mobility and EU coordination of social security systems. He coordinates the EU project ‘POSTING.STAT’. This project brings together a consortium of universities and research centres from 11 different Member States to enhance the collection, analysis and reporting of administrative micro-data on intra-EU posting.

Sabina Kubiciel-Lodzińska

Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics & Management Opole University of Technology

Sabina Kubiciel-Lodzińska holds a habilitation degree in economics and is a specialist in the fields of migration, labour markets and migrant integration. Her research focuses on the functioning of workers and entrepreneurs in the context of cross-border provision of services, the use of human capital, and the role of migration in enhancing the competitiveness of economies and regions.

She is a scholarship holder of the Polish-German Cooperation Foundation and has completed research stays, among others, at Humboldt-Innovation GmbH in Berlin and at the University of Mannheim. She cooperates with local and national public institutions, combining academic research with the analysis of practical regulatory, employment-related and organisational challenges linked to international labour and service mobility.

Her research includes studies conducted among employers hiring migrants, foreign workers and entrepreneurs operating in Poland, as well as international students, focusing on career paths, skills specialisation and barriers to access to labour and service markets. She has also carried out projects related to migrant employment in service sectors, including elderly care, and to the qualification matching of highly educated migrants.

In her most recent work, she addresses issues related to the use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence in labour market and migration analyses.

She works at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Opole University of Technology and is a member of the Committee for Migration Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Prof. Daniel Eryk Lach, LL.M. (EUV)

Associate Professor at the Department of Labor Law and Social Security Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, "Take Good Care Session" Speaker

• Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich
• Author of over 140 scientific works on theoretical and legal issues of the healthcare and long-term care system, also from constitutional and cross-border perspectives, as well as social security law and labor law.

Jadwiga Chorązka

Leader of the Global Mobility Team at Vialto Partners Poland

Jadwiga is a Partner and the leader of the Global Mobility Team at Vialto Partners Poland, which comprises over 70 specialists in tax and immigration. Prior to this role, Jadwiga served as a Director at PwC.

Jadwiga holds a degree from the University of Economics in Wrocław, Poland, where she earned her Master’s in Economics. She is also a certified tax advisor. Her expertise lies in advisory services related to personal income tax, social security, and Polish immigration matters. Her areas of focus include employment and remuneration structures, taxation of employee benefits, and international assignments of employees.

At Vialto Partners, Jadwiga oversees Global Mobility Technology and Digital Innovation services, emphasizing the automation of Global Mobility processes for clients. Her approach to technology aims to simplify and streamline the processes associated with employee relocation.

Jadwiga is a published author of numerous articles and speaker at lectures on personal taxation. She is a co-author of the book “Double Tax Treaties: Commentary” (2011, Wolters Kluwer) and has contributed to online commentary on the Polish Personal Income Tax Act (Legalis, C.H. Beck).

Grzegorz Ogórek

Director in the Legal and Tax Department at Vialto Partners Poland

Grzegorz is a Director in the Legal and Tax Department at Vialto Partners Poland. He has over 20 years of experience in tax advisory for individuals and social security matters. Previously, he served as a Senior Manager at PwC.

He is a graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where he obtained a Master’s degree in Law.

He specializes in personal income tax, social security, and legal aspects of international employee transfers. He provides advisory services on employment and remuneration structures for employees and executives, international remote work, taxation of incentive and capital programs, employee benefits taxation, and other employment-related matters.

He is the author of numerous press articles and an expert featured in television and radio programs on personal taxation and social security. He is also a co-author of the Tax Guide for Ukrainian Citizens for 2023 (Polish-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce, 2024) and an online commentary on the Personal Income Tax Act (Legalis, C.H. Beck).

Emilia Piechota

Partner responsible for providing immigration services in Poland and other CEE countries at Vialto Partners

Emilia Piechota is a Partner responsible for providing immigration services in Poland and other CEE countries at Vialto Partners.

She holds a degree from the University of Szczecin (Faculty of Economics) and Baruch College at the City University of New York. She has also completed postgraduate studies in tax law at the University of Warsaw.

Before joining Vialto Partners, Emilia worked at renowned international consulting firms.

She specializes in various aspects of global mobility, including immigration law, taxation, and social security matters. She is an expert in the legalization of work and residence for foreign nationals in Poland.

Emilia has extensive experience managing projects for Polish publicly listed companies and international organizations, covering immigration matters, efficient compensation structures, and taxation of both foreign employees in Poland and Polish citizens working abroad.

She has frequently conducted training sessions and spoken at conferences on global mobility topics.

Kamil Matuszczyk PhD

Assistant professor | Researcher Migration Studies | Social Policies | University of Warsaw

Dr. Kamil Matuszczyk is an esteemed assistant professor at the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Political Science and International Studies and a researcher at the Centre for Migration Research. With a PhD in political science and administration, his expertise spans international labor migration, domestic care sectors, population policies, and labor market dynamics. Dr. Matuszczyk has led significant research on the employment of foreign workers in the domestic care sector across Germany, Poland, and Ukraine, funded by the National Science Centre’s Preludium and Etude grants. His dissertation on state policy towards care migration, supervised by Prof. Maciej Duszczyk, earned him a prestigious award from the Institute of Labour and Social Affairs. A prolific participant in European projects on worker posting, seasonal migration, and irregular migration, he has also contributed to global discussions on labor and migration. Dr. Matuszczyk has been a visiting scholar at several notable institutions including the Central European University and Humboldt University. His work with Kulczyk Investments has produced influential reports on labor relations and the impact of new technologies on the labor market in Central and Eastern Europe.

Daria Matecka

Expert from Italy: legal, administrative and tax support

Daria Matecka operates in Italy providing legal, administrative and tax support to foreign companies conducting business activities in Italy, regardless of the legal or organizational structure adopted. She has over ten years of experience in the application of regulations governing cross-border activities and the operation of companies within the Italian market.

Her activity is carried out both independently and in her capacity as a representative of Giulio Cesare Srl, in cooperation with a well-established network of qualified partners, ensuring coherent, comprehensive and coordinated support to corporate clients.

The scope of support primarily covers international companies — including entities from Poland — in matters related to workforce mobility, posting of workers, as well as the organization and management of operational activities in Italy, with full compliance with administrative, tax and organizational obligations.

A significant part of her activity focuses on ensuring regulatory compliance of companies and workers, with particular attention to health and safety at work, document management, authorization procedures, and compliance of construction sites and investments with Italian regulations. In this context, she supports companies in aligning internal procedures and in liaising with technical advisors and competent authorities.

Her work is characterized by a structured, pragmatic and efficiency-oriented approach, enabling foreign companies to operate in Italy in compliance with the applicable legal framework, while minimizing formal risks and ensuring operational continuity.

Davide Vieni

Labour Mobility Consultant - Italy

Attorney since 2015, Davide Vieni operates as consultant in the field of labour law, focusing on transnational aspects.

Fluent in English and ordinary member of the European Labour Mobility Institute, Davide is also Country Consultant for COMIC in Italy.

Marek Benio PhD

Lawyer, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Vice President of the European Labour Mobility Institute

• Chairman of the Congress Organizing Committee and Moderator of the entire event
• Honorary member of the Małopolska Branch of the Polish Social Insurance Association, founder of the Foundation for Public Administration and Economy
• Creator of the Legal Posting Workshop – a mechanism for transferring knowledge between the academic, business, and administrative environments
• Participant in public consultations and author of key legal opinions on the implementation directive, revision of the basic directive, and regulations on the coordination of social security systems
• Academic teacher, lecturing on labor law and social security at the Krakow University of Economics and the University of Gdańsk
• Advocate of Oxford-style debates, tutor and promoter of over 200 master’s and diploma theses
• Twice awarded the “Mentor” student award in the Innovator category

Ada Zaorska

President of the Polish Home Care Association

She has been working continuously in the care industry for the elderly, disabled, and people with mental disorders since October 1993, running the Nursing and Care Agency “Egida” and founding an association with the same name.

Over these 30 years, she has cooperated with Assistance Centers in Lublin, Świdnik, Lubartów, and Puławy, and since 2012, in collaboration with Optimum pro Senior company, she has been delegating caregivers to clients living in Germany.

Thanks to her commitment and work, over 10,000 clients and several thousand caregivers, who regularly undergo training to enhance their qualifications, have already benefited from care.

Currently, she provides private care for about 85 seniors from Lublin and its vicinity and for 72 seniors in Germany (live-in care).

Marcin Kiełbasa PhD

Legal scholar and legal advisor of European Labour Mobility Institute, currently serving as an assistant professor at the Department of Public Economic Law and Labor Law at the Cracow University of Economics

Doctor of Legal Sciences, legal advisor (Krakow Bar Association), and assistant professor at the Department of Public Economic Law and Labor Law at Cracow University of Economics (UEK). He is also a translator of English and Italian, including freelancing at the Court of Justice of the European Union and teaching at the Department of Translation Studies at Jagiellonian University. He graduated from the American Law School of the Jagiellonian University, the Catholic University of America School of Law, and completed postgraduate studies in Labor Law at Jagiellonian University.

A recipient of scholarships from the National Science Center, the University of Vienna, Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB), and the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence among others. He is an expert and participant in several international and Polish grants concerning internal EU market mobility, cross-border aspects of worker posting, labor law, and social security.

He has authored dozens of scientific publications on labor and social security law, particularly on cross-border aspects and the posting of workers within the EU. His professional and academic interests include labor and social security law (including European aspects with a focus on practical cross-border issues), worker posting (including its practical aspects), and economic law—particularly the law of the EU internal market and public economic law (including business operation regulations).

In these fields, he provides consultancy to Polish and international entities.