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In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, short-time work has once again proven to be an effective instrument to stabilise employment. Despite considerable differences in the institutional design and logic of short-time work schemes, the rapid deployment and high take-up of short-time work benefits was a high priority in all European countries. The paper describes significant changes in the short-time work programme design since March 2020, the role played by short-time work scheme during the crisis and discusses possible effects against the background of former empirical findings.

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The aim of the paper is to show the conditions of taking up work and employment opportunities of deaf people in Poland. The theoretical part describes medical and cultural aspects of deafness. The size and structure of the deaf population as well as their methods of communicating have been analyzed. Particular attention has been paid to employment barriers faced by deaf people and their strengths and weaknesses as workers. In the empirical part, a diagnostic survey has been used to verify the hypothesis.