GETTING A WORK PERMIT

Employer who is going to hire a foreigner as worker on vacant working places has to get permition form Labor Bureau (Urad prace). Employer has to send letter to Labor Bureau that there is a vacant working place in his company and ask to give permition to hire foreigner. If there are no citizens of Czech who also want to have that job a foreigner will get permition to get that job. It will cost about 100 Euro for employer to apply for foreigner's work permit.If police will caught a foreigner who works illegally he has to pay a penalty 10 000. An employer who hired a foreigner without work permition has to pay penalty.So it is always to be kept in mind to get all the relevant information befor e you jump into conclusions and get cheated.