VILNIUS. Feb 10 (Interfax) – The Lithuanian government has decided to facilitate the employment of some experts from third countries and hopes to attract such workers from Ukraine, Prime Minister of Lithuania Saulius Skvernelis has said.
“If you look at the statistics of recent years, people of those professions, we are talking about, come from Ukraine. I think that we see the same process in the neighboring Poland. The situation is more liberal there. According to our data, thousands of Ukrainians have successfully integrated into the labor market. They are creating additional cost and allow the business to grow,” the prime minister said in an interview with Ziniu radijas radio station on Thursday.
According to him, the government, making employment of foreign experts easier, has created sufficient guards in order not to hurt the growth of wages of local residents.
On Wednesday, the Lithuanian government approved the list of professions for easy order of specialists’ employment of certain areas from abroad, in particular, programmers, experts in the field of information technology, engineers of various fields and technicians. These provisions will apply to immigrants not from the EU countries. Within the community itself all its citizens can work in another country without permission.
