Polecenie wydane sportowcowi jako pracownikowi w świetle art. 100 § 1 Kodeksu pracy

The performance of sports work by athletes is a performance of specific kind of work. In Polish legal system, there is no basis for the employment adjusted to the particularities of sport, which is why athletes have to resort to the provisions of the Civil Code and/or the provisions of the Labor Code. The purpose of the article is to present the significance and nature of the official order given to an athlete, taking into account the specifics of perform-ing this profession. In particular, the purpose of the study consist in the answer to the ques-tion: whether an official order can concern player’s private sphere, taking into account that the implications for each player’s form are directly or indirectly derived from it? The article also presents the most important court rulings in the area of labor law. The conducted research leads to the conclusion that it is possible to issue business order to an employee-athlete, which concerns the employee’s behavior in his free time, as long as they have some relation-ship with the proper performance of employee duties.