Hiring foreign workers in Slovakia

The employer drives the mainstream route by reporting the vacancy, issuing the contract or binding promise, and keeping the labour-market filing coherent until the Foreign Police finishes the case.

• Report the vacancy to the competent Labour Office before the worker files the residence application.
• Issue the employment contract or written promise used as proof of purpose of stay.
• Stay available if the Labour Office or Foreign Police asks for clarification on the role or vacancy.

Blue Card sponsors need a genuinely higher-qualified role, a contract or binding promise for at least one year, and salary that clears the statutory sector-based threshold.

• Report the high-qualified vacancy to the Central Labour Office before the Blue Card filing.
• Issue the contract or written promise with at least one year of employment and Blue Card-level pay.
• Keep the role description consistent with the filed qualification basis and labour-office confirmation.

The host institution carries the route through the hosting agreement and has to support the file as the named Slovak research host rather than as a generic employer.

• Issue the hosting agreement accepted for the research-and-development residence route.
• Confirm the research basis and host status if the authorities ask for supporting detail.
• Coordinate with the researcher on the post-arrival health-insurance and medical-certificate follow-up.

Where Slovakia still uses a standalone work permit, the employer has to report the vacancy early enough and often files or supports the labour-office permit stage before residence can be completed.

• Report the vacancy at least 10 working days before the work-permit filing where that route applies.
• File the work-permit request directly or support the worker's filing with written consent and route-specific documents.
• Keep renewal timing under control because the vacancy must be re-reported before a renewal request.