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Meeting of MISEP Correspondents Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009
The assistance system for employment of
Ukrainian citizens in the Czech Republic
Jaroslav Maroušek Section of Employment Policies
and Labour Market Ministry of Labour and Social
Affairs of the Czech Republic
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Management of TCNs labour migration in the CR
Meeting of MISEP Correspondents, Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009

• regulation of entry to the CR regulation of
  entry to
• the Czech labour market
• promotion and facilitation of legal labour
  migration
• sanctions in case of illegal procedures
• prevention
• dissemination of
  information
• on legal labour migration
  and risks
• of illegal labour
  migration
• - translations into
  TCNs languages
• (leaflets,
  brochures, Section Foreign
• - Employment
  Matters on Integrated
• Portal of MoLSA
  
• http//portal.mpsv.c
  z/sz/zahr_zam)
• counselling
  (LOs,LIs,MoLSA,NGOs)

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Reasons for establishment of the AS
Meeting of MISEP Correspondents, Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009

• insufficient preventive tools risks of illegal
  procedures
• client system
• Ukrainian citizens socio-cultural features
• need to facilitate temporary and circular
  migration
• inclusion of migrants
• ? necessity to inform more potential
  migrants/potential
• victims of the client system adequately
  before their
• decision
• ? necessity to assist directly and individually
  by
• preventive system of providing complex
  services
• (legal alternative to the client system)

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Financial and technical matters
Meeting of MISEP Correspondents, Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009

• temporary/circular migration new issue
• (financial sources, legal and administrative
  framework, unexpected development and needs)
• demanding issue
• (need of safety measures risks connected to
  the client system and crime structures in both
  countries, risk of corruption and preferential
  treatment at all levels, subject trustful to all
  parties for a realisation, effective tender,
  safety conditions set up for co-operation of
  assistance centres with migrants and employers)

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Tender and financing
Meeting of MISEP Correspondents, Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009

• financed from
• the public tender of the MoLSA Realisation of
  preventive activities against illegal work
  migration to the CR from Ukraine
• (Czech part informative seminars on Ukraine
  the mediator for communication among Czech and
  Ukrainian parts and the Czech embassies
• duration 9/2007 3/2008 later prolonged till
  June 2008)
• the development policy project of the Ministry
  of Interior Prevention of misuse of workers at
  the European labour market, in particular in the
  CR (1/2007 12/2007)

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Tender and financing
Meeting of MISEP Correspondents, Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009

• selected to realise both Caritas Czech Republic
• presented to a public both in the CR and in
  Ukraine
• pilot "The assistance system of employment of
  Ukrainians in the CR implemented with the support
  of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and
  the Ministry of Interior
• price (1/2007 3/2008) MoLSA 115 287,2 EUR
  M of I 74 589,4 EUR circa 189 876,6 EUR

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Description of the Assistance system I.
Meeting of MISEP Correspondents, Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009

• aims
• prevent illegal work migration
• facilitate temporary/circular legal work
  migration
• for both non-qualified and qualified migrants
  (presumption less capable victims of clients)
• as illegal migrants are concerned get advice
  only!, standard legal conditions have to return
  
• possibility for migrants any part of the
  service/ complex service of a mediation of work
  in the CR
• (free of charge payment of all standard
  administrative fees)
• not provided payment of costs, loans,
  accommodation, medical treatment, assistance to
  migrant/employer who breaks the law

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Meeting of MISEP Correspondents, Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009
Description of the AS II.

• network of centres Ukraine (3) and CR (5)
• a) contacts employers employees
• b) job mediation in the CR
• c) social legal counselling for migrants and
  employers
• d) assistance to migrants (e.g. with authorities,
  with filling in the applications for residence
  and work permits),
• to employers (recruitment directly in
  Ukraine)
• e) information about legal and illegal procedures
  connecting with work in the CR and promotion of
  the Assistance system
• f) monitoring and analysis of work migration in
  the CR/ Ukraine
• g) a mediator for communication among Czech
  Ukrainian parts the Czech embassies

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Description of the AS III.
Meeting of MISEP Correspondents, Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009

• website www.praceproukrajince.cz information
  for migrants and employers, contacts,
  communication platform, internal database CZ,
  UA languages
• information about the A. s. /migration topic
  provided to all relevant stakeholders (potential
  migrants, state administration, employers etc.)
• information letters and emails
• leaflets distribution
• information seminars
• TV spots and advertisements
• personal consultations
• providing information in the framework of the
  Inter-ministerial Body for Combating Illegal
  Employment of Foreigners
• information provided to CTK (Czech Press Agency)

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Results of the A. s. I.
Meeting of MISEP Correspondents, Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009

• circa 500 migrants took advantage of some of
  services provided
• circa 200 employers took advantage of some of
  services provided
• 48 migrants entered a job

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Results of the A. s. II.
Meeting of MISEP Correspondents, Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009

• Monitoring studies were elaborated every month
• average migrant man (¼ women), middle age,
  secondary to higher level of qualification,
  demanded profession qualified craftsman, driver,
  qualified technical professions, economist
• average expectation of a migrant sometimes
  unrealistic ideas willingness to work on
  position with demanded lower qualification than
  is the migrants qualification hard work longer
  time work

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Results of the A. s. II.
Meeting of MISEP Correspondents, Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009

• average profile of an employer SME possibility
  of accommodation experiences with illegal
  structures
• average expectation of an employer priority of
  quality to price of work force sometimes
  unrealistic idea speed up the visa process
  demanded profession non-qualified worker, worker
  in services and shops, qualified craftsman,
  medical personnel, highly skilled workers

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Meeting of MISEP Correspondents, Prague, Czech
Republic 5-6 March 2009



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