Iwona Jaroszewska-Ignatowska

Attorney-at-law, PHD

Founding and Managing Partner of PEOPLE & LAW

TOP 25 Women Lawyers in Business by Forbes 2023

Recommended lawyer in 2024 by Rzeczpospolita

Iwona Jaroszewska-Ignatowska has been ranked as a key lawyer in Employment law by Chambers for 14 years.

Iwona has almost 25-years’ experience in employment law. She conducted her own boutique law office and afterwards she became a partner (for 7 years) in Raczkowski law firm. In March 2024 she opened People & Law with Katarzyna Sarek-Sadurska and both their teams.

Iwona deals with labor law in Business and solves human problems in companies. She leads strategic projects such as individual and group layoffs, restructurings, negotiation with trade unions, (e.g. during collective disputes). She implements, with a businesslike and pragmatic approach, new regulations (remote work, shield subsidies, whistleblowers). She conducts internal investigations (in discrimination and harassment cases) and litigation in all aspects of labour law. She is well-known on a market as a excellence trainer and panelist.

Iwona specializes in working time, flexible forms of employment and work organization (remote work, equivalent and task-based working hours, four-day work week, work-life balance).

She implements inclusivity in organizations, including inclusive language, inclusive and supportive policies: women, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities. She helps legally manage different generations in the company from silvers to the snowflake generation. She provide legal advice to leaders throughout the life cycle of an employee at a company, from recruitment to exit-interview.

Clients and customers value Iwona for her businesslike, comprehensive and pragmatic approach.

Iwona is an author of numerous scientific and journalistic publications in leading publications, books, co-author of encyclopedias and practical commentaries on labor law.