Legal work and migration Everything you need to know about working legally in EU

For more than 10 years, more than 600.000 Moldovans left the country to look for a better future abroad, leaving their families in Moldova. Many of them left the country illegally and continue to be such till present in the European Union countries. This process led to serious problems: breaking the family apart, impossibility to see your family, mistrust of the employer from EU, etc

In the period 27th -28th of October, the EU funded project “Strengthening Moldova’s capacity to manage labour and return migration” has organized a study visit to the Public Employment Agency of Belgium (Flanders region) for 10 employees of the National Employment Agency of Moldova (ANOFM).

In the period 17th-18th and 24th -25th of October the EU-funded project “Strengthening Moldova’s capacity to manage labour and return migration” has organized two training sessions on how to work with employers for 30 employees of the National Employment Agency of Moldova.

These trainings are a continuation of the trainings organized previously and aim to set the basis of a good and efficient collaboration between employers and NEA by appointing 10 Key Accounts by the end of these activities.

On 29th of June, 2011 the EU financed project “Strengthening Moldova’s capacity to manage labour and return migration” in collaboration with the National Employment Agency has launched the Intranet for the employees of the agency.

By introducing the new channel of communication, Intranet, we aimed at making the work of employees more efficient, save time and offer quick access to useful and updated information linked to their day-to-day activity and labour market.

In the period January- April 2011 the European Union project „Strengthening Moldova’s capacity to manage labour and return migration” in collaboration with the National Bureau of Statistics carried out a survey on the topic „Living and working legally in the European Union”.

The goal of the survey was to measure the level of knowledge and use of legal channels to migrate to one of the European Union’s country of Moldovan citizens who have the goal of living and working in EU and what are the conditions of staying/working in EU countries.

Migration phenomena in Moldova exists already over 15 years. Although the same phenomena takes place in all countries, in Moldova, it has become of wide scope. At present, over 600.000 (unofficial figure) of Moldovans find themselves abroad (or app. 40% of the active labour force ), the majority of them working illegally. The main destination of Moldovans is EU countries, especially: Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany.