Interesting data about foreigners on the Polish labour market
A few days ago, Legalito, the EWL Foundation and the Warsaw University Centre for Eastern European Studies published a report titled Migrants in Polish Companies: Employment Practices, Forecasts and Barriers: Employers’ Experience. The survey covered 200 medium-sized and large companies representing key sectors of the economy such as IT, construction, manufacturing or logistics.
According to the Central Statistical Office, at the end of May 2024 there were more than one million foreigners working in Poland, accounting for 6.7% of the total workforce. Whereas the aforementioned survey shows that as many as 61 per cent of employers of workers from outside the EU plan to increase the number of foreigners they will employ in 2025. An increasingly important role in this is played by workers from Asia and Latin America.
A significant challenge identified in the survey in the area of migration is the long time it takes for foreigners to legalise their stay in Poland:
- 58 per cent of the surveyed companies considered the waiting time for permits to be a key problem;
- 50 per cent of the surveyed companies considered the immigration law to be excessively complicated;
- As many as 95 per cent of respondents stated that simplifying procedures would speed up the process of employing foreigners in Poland.
The full report, containing detailed data and analysis, is available here.