This is how guest workers are brought into Hungary

Work Force, a Hungarian work agency, drew recently public attention on the fact that more and more foreign guest workers come to Hungary because of the constant labour shortage the country is struggling with. According to them, Hungarians and foreign citizens get the same wages in the same position.

It can only be done professionally

According to the CEO of the company, Róbert Csákvári, the solutions to the problem of labour shortage could be

• a significant wage increase in Hungary
• providing better working conditions
• building more portable cabins and accommodation units
• flexible working hours
• and the “import” of guest workers

Regarding the numbers, by the end of last September,

the number of guest workers grew by 150 pc compared to 2017 data.

Work Force also help foreign citizens come to work in Hungary. In fact, 80 pc of them are from Ukraine while 10-10 pc from Romania and Serbia – 24.hu reported.

This, of course, does not mean that they deal with workers only from these three countries since no companies on the market concentrate only on certain states. Based on their experience, there is a wide range of companies employing foreign workforce from construction companies to factories.

Equal work – equal pay in Hungary

Generally, most of the foreign citizens aiming to work in Hungary come from Romania, Ukraine and Serbia from where Work Force is recruiting, too. Therefore, they have

job advertisements, business partners and a recruiting network

in the target countries in order to get in touch with those who could be persuaded to come to Hungary.

According to them, the paperwork in the case of citizens coming from third countries is flexible but needs time. Of course, non-EU citizens can only come to work in Hungary provided they already obtained all the required documents. The work agencies’ job to help them get all of these papers in time.