{"id":71825,"date":"2026-03-20T11:45:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/?p=71825"},"modified":"2026-03-20T11:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T10:51:16","slug":"employers-should-check-if-the-employee-who-gets-company-car-has-a-driving-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/employers-should-check-if-the-employee-who-gets-company-car-has-a-driving-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers should check if the employee who gets company car has a driving license"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Employers who decide to entrust a vehicle to an employee should set out detailed rules governing its use in an appropriate internal policy. This includes, in particular, the right to use a company car for private purposes, rules on settling usage costs and, where applicable, monitoring arrangements. The employer should also ensure that the employee holds a valid driving licence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Penalties for entrusting a vehicle to an unauthorised person<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Allowing a person without the required authorisations to drive a vehicle \u2013 for example, someone who does not hold a driving licence at all, or whose licence has been revoked by a court \u2013 constitutes a minor offence. It may even amount to a criminal offence if the person entrusting the vehicle has a specific duty to prevent an unauthorised individual from driving it.<\/p>\n<p>Where the person entrusting the vehicle suspects that the employee does not hold a valid driving licence, they may also be liable for aiding and abetting the offence of driving without authorisation, punishable by up to two years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the employer is obliged to verify whether the employee holds a valid entitlement to drive a specific type of vehicle. The verification rules should be set out in internal regulations, as this involves the processing of personal data not expressly listed in Article 22 section 1 of the Labour Code. The legal basis for this processing is the need to comply with a legal obligation incumbent upon the controller and the pursuit of the controller\u2019s legitimate interests.<\/p>\n<p>Employers should avoid collecting excessive data and should limit processing to what is strictly necessary. Verification of driving entitlements should also be repeated at least whenever doubts arise as to the employee\u2019s authorisation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Find more articles in <a href=\"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/pro-hr-march-2026-2\/\">PRO HR March 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employers who decide to entrust a vehicle to an employee should set out detailed rules governing its use in an appropriate internal policy. This includes, in particular, the right to use a company car for private purposes, rules on settling usage costs and, where applicable, monitoring arrangements. The employer should also ensure that the employee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-71825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bez-kategorii","tag-damian-tokarczyk"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71832,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71825\/revisions\/71832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raczkowski.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}