Abstract:

The synergy between the business sector and human rights is becoming increasingly visible in the second decade of the 21st century. It is worth mentioning that it is entrepreneurs themselves who are petitioning for the introduction of specific legal instruments providing appropriate protection against abuse by public authorities. On the other hand, human rights must become an effective instrument in dealing with all forms of lawlessness and abuse by private commercial entities in order to facilitate effective legal protection. This article presents the issue of the implementation of human rights standards into business and business ethics in broad terms, largely by illustrating an analysis of regional systemic difficulties related to abuse in the healthcare sector in the Polish legal system. The standards stemming from human rights are used as instruments facilitating deliberations on the reality at hand and the description of specific events. The article follows the case study research method focusing on confronting the conceptual framework with specific cases. The method of legal text exegesis following the stream of derivative interpretation, based on a normative concept, which proposes specific interpretation strategies according to the characteristics of legal texts, was employed as an auxiliary tool.