Guest workers from third-world countries with high professional qualifications in mathematics, natural sciences, technology and IT can receive the Hungarian Card (Magyar Kártya), the Culture and Innovation Ministry (KIM) said on Friday.
The ministry said in a statement that the measure is among others aimed at ensuring the workforce necessary for a dynamic economy.
65,000 guest workers may come from 15 countries
According to hvg.hu, in 2024, 65,000 is the maximum number of guest workers who can come to Hungary. The 15 countries foreigners can come from are the following: Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Montenegro, Vietnam, Russia, Brazil, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Venezuela, and Colombia.
However, there are lots of jobs non-EU foreigners cannot accept. For example, they cannot be government members, priests, engineers, dentists, or pharmacists. They cannot work as teachers at universities or schools, as actors or historians. They cannot be shopkeepers, metro, tram, or trolley bus drivers, shoemakers, or furriers. But as a non-EU citizen, you can work as a bus driver. We detailed in THIS article that, for example, Budapest welcomes foreign bus drivers to ease the labour shortage in the sector.
Number of registered jobseekers falls to all-time low in February
The number of registered jobseekers in Hungary fell by 10,000 to 235,400 last month, an all-time low for the month of February, the state secretary for employment policy said on Friday, citing data from the National Employment Service (NFSZ).
The number of registered jobseekers fell by 4 percent from the same month a year earlier, Sándor Czomba said in a statement. Compared with 2010, the number of jobseekers has fallen by more than 420,000, he added.
Anyone who is willing and able to work can find a job in Hungary, the state secretary said, adding that wages were also rising.
Having reined in inflation, the government is now focused on achieving an economic growth rate of 4 percent, Czomba said, adding that this required restoring consumption, raising the labour market activity rate and keeping the investment rate above 25 percent.
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Here is the thing. A lot of Fidesz fans are country side with no high education, either farmers or working in factories. Its known that some factory workers are now being replaced by guest workers, so, the question is, are those supporters still loving fidesz? Guess workers are not the one to blame. Another interesting question would be to know what is the criteria to chose those 15 countries in the list, how is the government ensuring that those are “well behaved” citizenz? Are they deeply checking their profiles? I dont think so, even a criminal record could be fake. So, one more time, after all the speeches against migration, looks like the government is deciding who can come “legally” according to their belives. Bur i guess fidesz workers, even if they are replaced, they will be happy with the “wise” politicians hungary have. So i can only say, enjoy! (Egészségére) for this amazing success history. Forin is in free fall, the family policies are not working, and not Orban is selling Hungary to China. Amazing future is expected in the near term.
What’s the Legal position, in relation to the Laws under Hungary’s – Membership of the European Union and Schengen – that is contained in this article, under practice and introduced from and by the Orban Government ???
Surely, they are NOT again breaking of FAILING to comply – acting in accordance with – by the letter, by the word – to the Laws applicable relating to the European Union & Schengen ?
It is Orban, it is his Government and Political Party Fidesz – the Oligarchy – who would be MASS winners in this growing, developing Guest Workers “veiled” – work permit policy.
Most Filipinos didn’t want to stay in Hungary forever because they only used it as a stepping stone to other rich countries like Spain, Germany, and Italy. In fact, some of the guest workers here didn’t even finish their contracts, and after just a month of working, they intend to look for jobs in other neighboring countries with high pay. So with that, Hungarian people can now feel at ease because these Filipinos have better options.
And some of the Filipinos I have talked to have experienced racial discrimination. No wonder they left because some hungarians made them feel like they didn’t belong.