11 minutes agoUkrainian refugees face challenges to EU employment
Periskopi(4 years ago)
(4 years ago)Liudmyla Chudyyovych once had a career as a lawyer in Ukraine and big plans for the future. That was before the Russian invasion forced the 41-year-old woman to put her daughter's safety and leave behind her job and home. Since leaving the town of Stryj in western Ukraine [...]
Instead of exercising her profession as a lawyer, however, she had to work as a housekeeper at a hotel in the Czech capital, Prague. It's just another stage of my career”. “simply, it's like this”, she said.
One of the millions of refugees who have fled Ukraine since the February 24th Russian invasion, Chudyyovych considers himself lucky to have a job. Not possessing enough Czech or English, Chudyyovych said she doesn't mind working as long as she and her daughter are safe.
Although the European Union presented regulations at the beginning of the war to make it easier for Ukrainian refugees to live and work in its 27 member states, while they decide whether to seek asylum or return home, many of them have only now begun to find work and many are still trying to do so.
