BRATISLAVA, December 28, (WEBNOVINY) — Almost 22,000 foreigners, of them 17,407 men and 4,495 women, worked in Slovakia in October 2011, according to figures of the Slovak Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family. The ministry specified that mostly Romanians, Czechs, Hungarians and Poles but also citizens of such exotic countries as Ivory Coast, Cape Verde, Nepal and Madagascar were registered as working in Slovakia at the end of the October.
At his year-end meeting with communities of foreigners living in Slovakia, Labor Minister Jozef Mihal (SaS) discussed the need for changes to the respective legislation. He said that the hottest problem of working permit burdening most foreigners working here cannot be currently resolved, as it would require a change to the law on employment services. The minister said that work is underway on an amendment while it will be possible to incorporate in it only changes that would justify adopting the bill in expedited legislative procedure. As early elections in Slovakia will take place in March 2012, no bill in a standard legislative procedure can be adopted until then, given the normal legislative deadlines.
Within the prepared amendment to the law on employment services whose legislative process has been halted, three groups were suggested to be incorporated among state citizens of third countries who do not need a working permit: 1. citizens of third countries who were provided supplementary protection, 2. citizens of third countries whose tolerated stay was prolonged as they were victims of people trafficking and 3. people from third countries who were granted a permit for tolerated stay due to private and family reasons.
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