Background information

The Business and Investment Development Agency CzechInvest , which advises and supports existing and new entrepreneurs and foreign trade, runs a platform Jobs4UA.cz matching Czech companies and Ukrainian job seekers.

Czech companies have a long-term problem with a lack of labour force. This platform, created in cooperation of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic , the Chamber of Commerce of the Czech Republic and the main employers´ associations should help both Czech companies and Ukrainian refugees.

Content of measure

The aim of the website, which is run in Czech and Ukrainian version, is to help Czech employers to attract Ukrainian job seekers, while Ukrainians on this website can respond to job offers in their native language. The website also offers basic information on the Czech labour legislation and occupational safety and health in Ukrainians.

To ensure the reliability of job offers, only CzechInvest clients and members of 11 employers' associations (with the largest associations, Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic among others) are allowed to publish their vacancies on the website.

According to CzechInvest, this website should not replace activities of labour offices, but rather to alleviate their work onslaught in the coming days.

Use of measure

As of 26 April 2022, there are 747 vacancies available on the website.

Target groups

Workers	Businesses	Citizens
Does not apply to workers	Applies to all businesses	Migrants or refugees

Actors and funding

Actors	Funding
National government Employers' organisations Company / Companies Local / regional government	No special funding required

Social partners

Social partners' role in designing the measure and form of involvement:

	Trade unions	Employers' organisations
Role	Informed	Agreed (outcome) incl. social partner initiative
Form	Not applicable	Any other form of consultation, institutionalised (as stable working groups or committees) or informal

Social partners' role in the implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:

• Only employers' organisations
• Main level of involvement: Peak or cross-sectoral level

Involvement

Employers' associations have been actively involved in designing and implementing of the measure.

Views and reactions

Employers' associations support this measure, although according to the Confederation of Employers' and Entrepreneurs' Associations of the Czech Republic the migration from Ukraine can't solve the problem with the lack of labour force and still other measures to attract qualified workers from third countries are necessary.

Trade unions in general support measures which should help Ukrainian refugees, however, are more cautious and warn the government, that –⁠ due to the increasing prices of energy and food, connected with the Ukrainian crisis –⁠ it is necessary to reconsider the level of social benefits and also price limits on some products to avoid income poverty.

Sources

• 24 March 2022: Press release of Ministry of Industry and Trade/Tisková zpráva MPO (www.mpo.cz)