Nearly 77,000 Ukrainian nationals have found employment in Poland since February 24, when Russia invaded their country, data from the Family and Labour Ministry showed.
The Polish government has granted Ukrainian refugees 18-month residency permits and allowed them to take up jobs as well as given them access to healthcare, education and welfare schemes.
About half of the refugees employed in Poland so far, or 36,900, are doing simple jobs, the ministry said on April 21.
Poland is employing 10,800 industrial workers and craftspeople from Ukraine as well as 7,900 services workers and shop assistants and 7,600 machine operators and assembly workers.
The remaining ones are employed as office workers, specialists, technicians and other mid-level personnel.
“A few thousand Ukrainian nationals find work every day thanks to which they can build their own lives in our country,” Marlena Malag, the family and labour minister, was quoted as saying in the ministry’s statement.
“The situation on the job market is very good and employers from numerous sectors are still looking for permanent or seasonal workers,” she added. (The First News/Business World Magazine)