Ukrainian work in Poland reaches the highest level in the EU: Maciej Duszczyk from the Ministry of abroad Affairs speaks about more than 65 percent employment among war refugees, more than 80 percent after erstwhile migration and about 95 percent with students. The CSO besides gave 769,3 1000 working Ukrainian citizens for 28 February 2026.
The data is strong, but politics cannot be blind
Ukrainian work in Poland reaches the highest level in the EU: Maciej Duszczyk from the Ministry of abroad Affairs speaks about more than 65 percent employment among war refugees, more than 80 percent after erstwhile migration and about 95 percent with students. The CSO besides gave 769,3 1000 working Ukrainian citizens for 28 February 2026.
These are numbers that can't be utilized with a simple password. Poland adopted a immense wave of people after Russian aggression against Ukraine, and the labour marketplace absorbed a large part of this migration. By GUS signal for February 2026 Work in Poland was done by 1 million 132.4 1000 foreigners, by 7.1 percent more than a year earlier. Ukrainian citizens accounted for 67.9 percent of this group.
For the Polish right hand, the proposal should be simple. The state cannot pretend to not see the contribution of legally working people to the economy. He can't abdicate from control either. The national interest requires both things at once: order at the border and in registers and a fair discrimination between work, taxes and legal residence and administrative chaos.
The Polish economy benefits, but it does not relieve the government of its duties
The CSO indicates that at the end of February 2026 the number of foreigners employed increased annually by 75,000 people. Among Ukrainian citizens, the increase was 60.4 1000 people, or 8.5 percent year-on-year. That's not a margin. It is simply a real part of the Polish labour market, present in companies, services, logistics, construction and seasonal work.
At the same time, almost 429.1 1000 foreigners performed only contract orders and related contracts. This number shows the another side of the medal. Poland needs a job, but it does not request a marketplace based on inexpensive rotation and mediocre position of the employee. If foreigners are to work in Poland, the state must guarantee the legality of employment, contributions and taxes. Otherwise, the bill will be paid to Polish employees, and the profit will stay in the pocket of intermediaries and companies playing costs.
There is besides a wider process in the background. We just wrote that foreigners establish thousands of companies in Poland, and the vast majority is created by Ukrainians. It could be an economical impulse if the state has control over it. It can besides become another area of fictional regulation if the authorities collect data over time and politicians respond only under the force of polls.
Ukrainian work in Poland and dispute over deportations
The statements of the Vice-Chairman of the Ministry of abroad Affairs came to an end erstwhile the political dispute about Ukrainians in draft age returned. Business Insider, reporting on the conversation of Duszczyk on the TOK FM radio, stated that the ministry estimates the number of Ukrainian citizens in Poland at about 1.8-1.9 million and announces further verification of registers. The specified fact that more than 4 years after the outbreak of full-scale war, the state is inactive ordering the data is simply a warning.
The government has a work to know who resides in Poland, on what basis, whether it works legally and benefits. This is not hostility to the Ukrainians. It's the fundamental importance of the state. Polish aid cannot mean administrative fog in which work is diluted between ministries, local governments, schools and ZUS.
Therefore, the dispute over deportations should not be brought to the tv cry. In a poll described in our pages 67.2 percent of respondents supported the deportation of Ukrainians without legal work. That shows the social mood. The state must respond by law and effective procedure, not by chaos or morality.
National interest alternatively of propaganda of success
High professional activity of Ukrainians in Poland can benefit the country. The condition is one: Poland determines the rules. Legal work, contributions, taxes, language learning, order in documents, and real enforcement of decisions towards those breaking the law. Without this, even good labour marketplace data will become a fuel for social tension.
Nor should large companies usage migration to reduce wage force towards Poles. economical sovereignty is not about the state clapping all employment statistics. It is that the marketplace serves the nation, not the another way around.
Poland passed a test of solidarity towards a neighbour assaulted by Russia. Now he has to pass the statehood test. Aid, work and safety can go together, but only if the government stops confusing humanitarianism with an indefinite makeshift.
GUS data source. Source: GUS, Business Insider, Radio Maryja.
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