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About 10% of Ukrainians working in Poland have come home in the last three weeks to April 10, ​estimates LIGA.net. A total of 143,200 left Poland, according to Agnieszka Golias, spokeswoman of Poland’s State Border Service. Last year, Ukraine’s embassy in Warsaw estimated 1.5mn Ukrainians were working in Poland. To encourage Ukrainians to stay, Poland’s Health Ministry says that all will receive free Covid-19 tests and, if positive, free treatment. Poland’s Sejm recently approved an anti-crisis program that gives labour migrants automatic extensions of work visas and residence cards for the length of the epidemic, plus 30 days.
One third of Ukrainian workers who left Poland due to the quarantine want to go back​ and half of Ukrainians working in Poland want to extend their stays there, according to a tally of callers to bilingual telephone hotline set up by a Polish employment agency, Gremi Personal. In the first 10 days of the hotline, “We are Together,” 1,287 Ukrainians called about working in Poland, Gremi said in a press release.
4.4.2​ Nominal wages dynamics
In January-​February, the average nominal wage was UAH 10,787 or $441.
Starting this in April, government salaries are to be capped at $1,700 a month, ​or $20,000 a year, President of Zelenskiy announced Friday night in a video address touching on the new budget. “All public officials should tighten their belts,” he said, stressing the new cap applies to board member of state companies, Rada members, judges, prosecutors and central bank officials.
21​ UKRAINE Country Report​ May 2020 ​ ​www.intellinews.com