Work and residence permits

The topic Work and residence permit primarily focuses on:
▪ national developments of labour migration and recent
policy changes in this area,
▪ the access and rights of migrant workers in the labour
market,
▪ tackling unequal or unfair working conditions of migrant
workers in practice.
Topic in E-library:

Press release: new project seeking shared interests between workers kicks off
In September (27-28.11) MKC team gathered with representatives of several NGOs and Universities across Europe for two days preparatory meeting launching the brand new international project.

What bothers migrant workers the most? Unpaid wages, reveals unique research on Ukrainian workers with Polish visa
We are proud to present you with results of our research “Towards stronger transnational labour enforcement cooperation on labour migration” (STRONGLAB). The main output of the research are five country reports giving an insights into patterns of labour migration and rights violations of migrant workers.

How do we better enforce migrant workers’ labour rights? Labour inspectorates must work together, experts agreed
Press Release, Prague, December 11, 2017
Working six days per week, twelve hours per day, lack of possibilities to negotiate even an unpaid leave or lacking health and social insurance. These are the working conditions faced by some migrant workers in the European Union. Even in the Czech Republic, the labour market has been undergoing restructuralization towa...

You could be the ONE! We are looking for a labor migration & precarious work project coordinator
Do you want a meaningful and fulfilling work? Currently, ...

Foreign workers according to Czech politicians: 8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep, 8 hours for misdemeanors
The Czech Interior Minister Chovanec has discovered a new border that must be protected. This time it is an interior one, which consists of foreign workers in the industrial cities who "come over more or less without any control", and, in the words of the Chief of Police Tuhý, they "demonstrably" increase crime rates. "Agencies" bring them in, make a profit, and, after workers lose their jobs, ...

Poland: Labour Conditions Facing Polish Migrant Workers in the EU Labour Market
Partner: The Galician Foundation for Regional Development
Location: Państwomiasto, ul. Andersa 29, Warszawa
Date: July 1, 2016

Patterns of Labour Rights Violations in 5 EU countries: Hearings with Migrant Workers and Policy Makers
As part of the “Testing EU Citizenship as Labour Citizenship: From Cases of Labour Rights Violations to a Strengthened Labour-Rights Regime” project co-funded by the European Union...

European Web Site on Integration's newsletter - issue 75
WELCOME! This is the 75th issue of the European Web Site on Integration's newslet...