The report “Immigrants in Poland in the context of a simplified procedure for employing foreigners” prepared by WiseEuropa, the University of Warsaw and the Center for Migration Research is now available for download. The authors of the report “Immigrants in Poland in the context of a simplified procedure of employing foreigners” Agata Górny, Paweł Kaczmarczyk, Monika Szulecka, Maciej Bitner, Marek Okólski, Urszula Siedlecka and Aneta Stefańczyk analyzed issues related to immigration to Poland and its impact on the labour market and economy.
Foreigners became an element of Polish reality in the first half of the 1990s and their role was constantly growing. The simplified procedure was launched into the Polish law in 2006, at first related to the agricultural sector, and in 2007 to the all others. Until 2014, it constituted an important but limited in terms of popularity and application of the way of supplying the Polish labour market to foreign employees. At the time, due to the conflict in Ukraine and the progressive breakdown of social and economic institutions in this country, it revealed its full potential. On average, in one average month of 2018, 422,000 employees worked under the simplified procedurę, almost three times more than three years earlier.
Although the authors of the report point to major difficulties in assessing the effect, especially in the context of short-term changes, immigration to the Polish labor market, they present specific recommendations indicating, among others, on the necessity to increase the stability of employment of foreigners under the simplified procedure, actions increasing the professional mobility of immigrants, maintaining or increasing the flexibility of the simplified procedure or extending the catalogue of countries covered by the simplified procedure. The whole report is available here.
The publication was created as part of the project “Creating a tool concept for assessing the quality of public employment services at the local, regional and central level in the scope of a simplified system of admission to work of foreigners and its implementation” co-financed by the European Social Fund.
