Poland opens job market to EU workers

Poland opens its job market to workers from all EU states as well as from Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway.

The Polish Labour Ministry said that the plan involves opening the market without any transition period to all the EU states including those which apply labour restrictions on workers from Poland. The Polish job market will also be open to Bulgarians and Romanians after the two states become EU members on January 1st next year.

The Polish labour minister Kazimierz Kuberski said that the Polish stand may be an incentive for all those countries which are still hesitating. The Polish initiative is joined by EU states like Sweden, Britain, Ireland as well as newcomers Slovakia, Estonia and Latvia. The rest of the EU states is still debating on the issue , though the German stand on the matter does not give rise to hope for a speedy free flow of the labour force.

Poland is also considering the opening of the job market to states outside the EU like neighbouring Ukraine and Belarus. The decision will undoubtedly help fill in the huge gap on the employment market, with hundreds of thousands of Polish workers having left Poland in search for work , mostly to Great Britain ,Ireland and Sweden.
Source:polskieradio.pl