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What happened? The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Economy and Communications of Estonia should submit to the Government a draft provision. According to the draft an employer could invite a citizen of a third country to Estonia full-time based on the registration of a short-term job.
The ministries agreed to reduce the shortage of labor in key sectors of the Estonian economy within the existing immigration quota, and not to introduce additional exceptions from the quota.
Quote. "Assistance in attracting foreign workers to technology companies is necessary because such companies require a large and growing number of employees for a variety of positions. According to the founders, growing companies need developers and product managers, designers, marketing and sales specialists, customer support specialists, technical recruiters, data engineers, and researchers, as well as quality engineers," said the Minister of the Interior Kristian Jaani and the Minister of Entrepreneurship Andres Sutt in a response to the head of the Estonian Trade Union Confederation, Peep Peterson.
Details. If the growth plans of the largest Estonian startups come to fruition, about 12,000 jobs could be created in this country in the next five years. Ministers admit that it is impossible to find many employees only in the Estonian labor market.
What else? At the same time, additional solutions are being jointly sought to better control mediation in the work of temporary agencies by current legislation. According to the ministers, the Law on Foreigners provides for liability for both the employer and the user.
The authorities emphasized that they also want to move forward as soon as possible with proposals to reduce wage requirements for leading specialists and create better conditions for growing companies to attract labor. According to Jaani and Sutt, these proposals create opportunities for sectors important for the development of the Estonian economy to attract qualified foreign workers when there are not enough of them in the local labor market.
Source: The Baltic Times
