In Poland, there are more and more Ukrainian workers with higher education who are looking for non-physical work
He emphasized that this portal is a virtual labor management, not an employment agency. "We give Ukrainian citizens who are looking for work in Poland the opportunity to show themselves. They can talk about their achievements in professional life. Currently, we already have 2.5 thousand registered workers in various fields," he said.
Daniel Dziewit noted that on the portal, available in Polish and Ukrainian, you can also find advice and publications about the Polish labor market. "We write so that workers from the East are careful, so that they do not allow themselves to be deceived, that is, we write on legal issues," he said.
According to the founder of the portal, increasingly, workers with higher education from Ukraine come to Poland looking for non-physical and intellectual work. "There are economists, financiers, programmers, people who worked in store chains and managed them. There are also workers in the real estate management sector. There are even scientists," he noted.
Dziewit reminded that employers can also post their offers on the page pracadlaukrainy.pl. He noted that these announcements are reliable. "The employer must register. That is, it cannot be someone looking for cheap labor, someone without a name. They must provide their details," he explains.
According to Daniel Dziewit, workers from Ukraine are constantly in great demand in Poland. "I am constantly asked about 15 seamstresses, about a worker for a slaughterhouse, for the construction industry, horticulture," he listed. In his words, workers from the East can fill some gaps in the Polish labor market. "They can be support, but they will not solve all problems," Dziewit believes.
He also noted that often workers from the East work in Poland "under the table" (illegally). "They sign labor agreements in Polish, but they should be in both Polish and Ukrainian. In fact, they often do not know what they are signing. Then they call us for help," he said.
When asked whether negative consequences are observed in connection with the arrival of workers from the East, he replied that "the negative thing is that so many Poles have left the country and therefore a large deficit of labor has formed on the Polish labor market."
Let us recall that recently workers from Ukraine can be employed in Poland under the so-called "simplified procedure." The simplified procedure, also called the "procedure based on a declaration," allows a citizen of one of 6 countries (Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine) to work in Poland for 6 months within each consecutive 12 months without the need to obtain a work permit.
The simplified procedure can be used provided that a declaration of intent to entrust work to a foreigner is registered at the poviat labor office, and provided that the foreigner has a document confirming their status of stay in the Republic of Poland, which may entitle them to perform work on the territory of Poland.
Given the minimal number of formal requirements and low costs (registration of the declaration is free), this procedure is very popular in Poland both among employers and among foreigners who are hired.