Hello!
Today’s topic is so important for everyone, because this could soon happen to you too (regardless of your PESEL number).
Have you, or your parents, grandparents, aunts, or uncles, ever searched for personal documents from companies that were once liquidated?
Or perhaps someone close to you is about to retire and wants to calculate their so-called starting capital, but the company(ies) they worked for ages ago have long since been liquidated?
Don’t worry – all is not lost.
Few people know that there’s a database that identifies where employers’ personnel and payroll records are stored – link below:
Archiwa Państwowe
It’s important that even if you don’t have an employment certificate or any other document confirming employment, you can still easily find it by entering, for example, the city where the company was headquartered. Of course, you should be aware that, unfortunately, not all companies transfer their records to other entities after liquidation. But it’s worth a try.
For example, I was looking for my parents’ employment certificates to determine their starting capital.
My mother (like thousands of other people from Zamość and the entire region) once worked for the Delia clothing company in Zamość, which went bankrupt in the 2000s. Out of curiosity, I entered the company name and discovered that Delia’s (formerly Cora) personnel and payroll records were located in the Payroll and Personnel Documentation Archive in Milanówek.
For my father, I was looking for records from three construction companies (two from Tomaszów Lubelski and one from Zamość) that existed at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. And guess what? All the documentation from these bankrupt companies is located in Lublin, in the depository archives on Mełgiewska and Turystyczna streets. All I had to do was submit a request and pay a nominal fee for scanned copies of the employment certificates, and after 2-3 weeks, everything arrived by registered mail. It was now easy to establish the starting capital.
So, I wish you fruitful research!