Nearly 0.5 mln of Ukrainians won’t be back until June

In case of the borders being closed and the epidemic maintained until June, as many as 480,000 Ukrainians will not come to work, experts of Personnel Service indicate. In their opinion, however, the demand for employees, and not only from the East, dropped significantly.

“Based on estimates related to the number of active mobile phones used in Poland and supported by Ukrainian operators, it can be assumed that there are approximately 1.2 million Ukrainian citizens staying with us. Assuming that the average period of stay of Ukrainians in our country lasts six months, as many as the maximum length of work permit, even tens of thousands of people came to the new job every week to replace those who leave. Now, this rotation is naturally stopped,” Krzysztof Inglot, Personnel Service president and labor market expert, said.

The anti-crisis shield provides for an extension of the period of validity of the work permit for the entire period of the epidemic status and 30 days after its end.

"We have asked the state authorities for an automatic extension of work permits and we are glad that it has been accepted. Of course, this is not an ideal solution to extend these permits only for 30 days after the end of the epidemic, but now at least employees from Ukraine will not have to leave Poland in a hurry. What's more, people employed in logistics, construction or food industry production can still work normally and support those companies that try to function in these difficult conditions,” Inglot summed up.

(ISBnews)