President's veto on helping Ukraine. “It can be a blow to the labor market and the economy”

The system is not ready to accept hundreds of thousands of people for legalization of stay in Poland within a month; It would be a blow to the labor market and the economy – assessed Yuriy Grygorenko with Gremi Personal in a commentary to the president's decision to veto the amendment to the Act on the aid of Ukrainian citizens.

President Karol Nawrocki informed on Monday that he did not sign the amendment to the Act on the aid of Ukrainian citizens. His decision was motivated by, among others The fact that the 800 plus benefit should only be given to Ukrainians who work in Poland.

“If the special act has not been in force from October 1, the system is also not prepared for hundreds of thousands of people within a month for legalization of stay in Poland according to the applicable provisions before the special law. It will be a colossal and immediate blow to the labor market and the Polish economy. Is it ready for this Poland, which has already begun a crisis from other, both external and internal reasons,” Gremi Personal Yuriy Grygorene.

In his opinion, the changes proposed by the president will also weaken the sense of security of Ukrainians working in Poland, which may be an impulse for them to change the country of residence or return to their homeland. He added that the president “surprised” with his decision, because during the campaign he did not mention that he was against helping Ukraine. Grygorenko pointed out that 78 percent Refugees with the status of the UKR took up work, professionally undergoed, the remaining slightly over 20 percent.

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“It is rarely talked about what kind of volume of help directed to persons professionally inactive in relation to what payments to the same ZUS affect over 800,000 Ukrainians who are professionally active. In the coming months, the Act will be signed, because it is a requirement of the European Union, I hope,” Grygarenko said.

The representative of Gremi Personal added that the Ukrainians themselves and their employers in Poland are not ready to leave the Ukrainians. In turn, the lack of health care “for the and such sensitive group among the citizens themselves from the UKR will only worsen their situation.”

Grygorenko pointed out that there is certainly a black work in Poland among foreigners, but the regulations so sealed the applicable system that “it is almost impossible at the moment.”

He also reported that immediately after the president's decision he asked the Ukrainians what they thought about this move.

“An ordinary woman waiting to report a child to Ukrainian citizenship under a consulate, she told me that, for example, she – a person who stays in Poland, does not work, gave birth to a child is thanks to the specialties covered by health protection, which is the opinion of the President unfair to Poles. There is this sensitive group of refugees that will suffer very much and the question, and the question, did it really mean? ” – said the expert.

The amendment to the act vetoed by the president assumed an extension of temporary protection granted to Ukrainian citizens, escaping from the war, until March 4, 2026. According to the executive decision of the EU Council, temporary protection was extended until March 4, 2026, which required the introduction of relevant amendments to the Act.

The amendment was also to clarify the premises for receiving the 800 plus benefit, so that it is also paid to children who graduated from secondary school before the age of 18 and meet the obligation to study by attending the university or for qualifying professional courses. The period of matters of such matters as, among others, was also to be extended granting a temporary residence permit. In addition, it assumed actions sealing the help system. It comes, among others on excluding the possibility of giving the rights to Ukrainian citizens who shortly cross the border on the basis of a permit to cross the border within the part of small border traffic.

According to the amendment, there was to be supported for local government units in the implementation of additional educational tasks related to the education, upbringing and care of children and students who are citizens of Ukraine.

– The Act on the help of Ukrainian citizens does not make the correction around which a public debate was pending. I will not change my opinion and I recognize that 800 plus should only belong to those Ukrainians who undertake the effort of work in Poland – said the president at Monday's briefing, justifying their decision. He explained that 3.5 years after Russia's attack on Ukraine, “the situation, also in the field of Polish public finances and political emotions, social emotions, has changed fundamentally.” – The law, which was proposed 3.5 years ago, should be corrected today – he said, adding that this did not happen.

As Krzysztof Gawkowski, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digitization, said on Monday, the president's veto also means excluding Ukraine Starlink satellite internet provided by Poland. – Support for Ukraine in ensuring communication, which expires at the end of September, was to be extended. We wanted to continue financing satellite internet for Ukraine. Unfortunately, the president's decision is very fatal, this complicates this very much and you will have to inform our partners that now such support will expire at the end of September – Gawkowski informed PAP.

Gremi Personal is an employment agency specializing in employing foreigners, mainly from Eastern Europe. (PAP)

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