Other special programmes are intended to provide companies with temporary help to overcome the period of lack of employees. The Mongolia and Philippines regimes has been introduced with effect from 1 May 2018. They focus on countries whose labour force has continuously been a centre of interest of Czech employers.
The regime as such should serve for targeted and selective acceptance and processing of applications for employee cards by citizens of Mongolia and the Philippines who will perform work activities in the Czech Republic in the area of production, services or the public sector (on job positions CZ ISCO 4-8).
- The targeted and selective nature means that similarly to the Ukraine regime, the other states regime can include only a specific employer that meets the regime’s criteria, together with a specific future employee or employees.
- Decisions on the applications for inclusion in the regime will be made by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MIT) based on a recommendation from the Czech business representation or the CzechInvest Investment and Business Development Agency. The annual capacity for this project is 1,000 applications from each of the above countries (i.e. approximately 85 applicants per month per each country).
- Employee card applications will be accepted by embassies in Ulaanbaatar and Manila. After the monthly capacity of the respective embassies is filled, application acceptance will be suspended. Unlike the Ukraine regime, applications for the other country regime will not be put in an endless line. The applicants will be able to register several weeks in advance.
- The regime is intended only for direct employers that have been active in the Czech Republic for at least two years in the area of production, services and the public sector, that employ at least 10 people, have no payables to the state and have been persistently unable to fill an available job position from Czech labour market resources. The job position where the applicant included in the regime by the employer would be employed must correspond to the employer’s business activity.
The regime also allows filing a “collective application” for 30 or more applicants, with the employer having to complement the application with a sworn statement that it will cooperate with the Centres for the Support of the Integration of Foreigners in the region, a sworn statement about having discussed the intention with employees in line with Section 280 (1) of Act No. 262/2006 Coll., Labour Code, and a statement of the mayor of the municipality where the foreigners will be accommodated after arriving in the Czech Republic.
The article is part of dReport – May 2018, Tax news; Grants and investment Incentives
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