International Organization for Migration (IOM) as a member of the National Contact Point of the European Migration Network (EMN) for the Slovak Republic and Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family organized an EMN thematic meeting on labour migration of third-country nationals to the Slovak Republic, especially from the point of view of the act on employment services, residence act and their planned amendments.
The working meeting “Legislative changes in the area of employment of third-country nationals in relation to the application practice” aimed at exchanging information and implementation of the articles of the act on employment services related to employment of non-EU nationals including refugees from Ukraine as well as other legislation and internal regulations in the area of employment of foreigners. Other topical questions related to practice were also discussed. The EMN activities and outputs related to the portfolio of the participants were presented, too.
Around 60 participants took part in the meeting. Among them there were employees of Labour Offices from all around Slovakia covering foreigners, experts on methodology of the new electronic system of employment services from February 2022, representatives of the Central Office of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic and IOM’s Information Migration Centre.
