The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic is preparing a program that will significantly speed up the employment of Ukrainians. This was announced by the Minister of Yaroslav Nemtsov, Radio Liberty reports..

In the Czech Republic, now the number of vacant jobs has reached a record number, more than 260,000 vacancies are vacant, said Minister Yaroslav Nemtsov. These are, first of all, nurses and social workers, as well as workers of medium technical qualification, builders.

Nemtsov last week visited Ukraine, in particular, the Czech embassy in Ukraine, as well as the Consulate General in Lviv, to agree on simplifying and speeding up the procedure for issuing a work permit. In particular, it is planned to increase the number of workforce from Ukraine with the right to work for two years up to 19600 people.

Now in the Czech Republic there are 374 thousand foreigners, 280 thousand of them. - EU citizens, 94 thousand. - citizens from other countries in Europe and Asia. Ukrainians from this number are 70 thousand.