KUL says it dismissed a lecturer with immediate effect after her social-media comments about the deaths of the Krakow attacker’s family members. The university’s spokesperson said the rector treated the employment decision separately from an earlier disciplinary proceeding over her posts.
Wojciech Andrusiewicz, spokesperson for the Catholic University of Lublin, said on 10 November that the rector had ended the academic teacher’s employment with immediate effect. Polsat News reported that the comments concerned the deaths of the attacker’s parents and sister in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski.
According to the report, KUL called the comments unacceptable and contrary to social norms and the values on which the university bases its work. The university is entitled to condemn political mockery of relatives’ deaths, particularly in public remarks by an academic employee. That ethical judgment, however, is distinct from an assessment of the employment decision under labour law.
The distinction with the disciplinary case matters. Andrusiewicz said the rector’s decision was unrelated to disciplinary proceedings opened earlier over the lecturer’s posts; Polsat News reported that those proceedings would consequently become moot. KUL has thus described the dismissal as an immediate employment action rather than the result of a completed disciplinary process.
The supplied report does not include the lecturer’s response, the detailed legal grounds for ending her contract, or information about an appeal. KUL’s announced action is a clear personnel decision, but those absent details still matter to any assessment of the procedure behind it.
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- Polsat News · Source date: 2026-11-10
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