Czech food manufacturers run early shifts, cold rooms and hygiene regimes that the local labour market increasingly refuses, and the Philippines has a food-processing workforce trained to HACCP for export plants and Gulf retail. This page covers the roles a Czech food producer recruits, how they are tested, and how the programme's calendar fits a production plan.
Food-production operators, bakers, butchers and boners, meat-processing and packaging operators and hygiene assistants are recruited through the Qualified Employee Programme on Employee Cards, classified by their real duties into CZ-ISCO groups 7 and 8, with the 30-day labour-market test, the wage criterion of CZK 27,328 (CZK 30,378 from 2027) and the comparable-wage rule. Food plants add two planning facts: shifts start early and rooms are cold, both of which are briefed in Manila in writing, and hygiene training is part of the induction in a language the worker understands.
A Czech employer hires a Filipino on an Employee Card (zaměstnanecká karta) — one permit for residence and work, issued by the Ministry of the Interior for the length of the employment up to two years and renewable — and reaches the Czech Embassy in Manila through the Government's Qualified Employee Programme (Program kvalifikovaný zaměstnanec), run by the Ministry of Industry and Trade with the Chamber of Commerce, the Confederation of Industry, CzechInvest and the Agrarian Chamber as garants. The programme does not shorten the Ministry's statutory decision time of 60 days (90 in complex cases) and does not replace the 30-day labour-market test in the central vacancy register; what it does is guarantee the candidate an appointment within the Philippine annual quota of 10,300 places — set by Government Regulation No. 109/2026 Coll. for the Embassy in Manila (11,400 Employee Card applications a year, 10,300 of them for the programme), divided evenly into twelve months of 858 and assigned to named workers at a release at 10:00 on the published day; unused monthly places are not carried over. In 2025 the programme admitted 10,795 workers from thirteen countries, 4,791 of them from the Philippines — the largest group — and in July, August and September 2026 the monthly Philippine capacity was exhausted within hours of release. On 15 October 2026 Deputy Prime Minister Havlíček announced that the quotas for the Philippines and India will be raised; a figure of 12,000 a year from January 2027 circulated from the Brno engineering fair without ministerial confirmation, industry recommended at least 15,000, and until a government regulation is published the 10,300 quota applies. Wages must be at least CZK 27,328 gross a month in 2026 (1.22 × the minimum wage of CZK 22,400) — CZK 30,378 from 1 January 2027 — and not lower than comparable employees. The client is always the employer; Orienta Czech administers the process under power of attorney.
At our Makati facilities candidates work production tasks to your work instruction; butchers break a primal and produce cuts to specification with yield and hygiene scored; bakers produce to your product list; packaging operators run a timed line task with documentation; your production manager watches live and interviews the same day. Candidates come from export food plants, Gulf retail and catering and Philippine meat and bakery operations, with TESDA Food Processing, Bread and Pastry and Slaughtering and Meat Processing certificates and HACCP training.
Recruitment runs through our own DMW-licensed agency, Prime Search Manpower Agency Inc. in Makati (licence DMW-027-LB-11182024): your company is accredited at the Migrant Workers Office at the Philippine Embassy in Prague — which sits in the same city as the Ministry of the Interior that decides the Employee Card, keeping contract verification and the immigration decision in one place — the job order is registered with the DMW, and every worker leaves Manila with a verified contract, medical clearance, pre-departure orientation and an Overseas Employment Certificate. Recruitment follows the employer-pays principle: no applicant pays for an interview, a trade test or a place on a shortlist. Your company is the employer from day one; Orienta Czech, the group's EU delivery entity licensed by the Czech Ministry of Labour, runs the recruitment and the immigration administration under your power of attorney and never employs or leases the workers.
Everything here is subject to the Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals (326/1999 Coll.), the Employment Act (435/2004 Coll.), the Government's Qualified Employee Programme as published by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of the Interior's practice in force and Philippine DMW rules.
Yes — operators, bakers, butchers and packaging staff classified in CZ-ISCO groups 7–8 by their real duties; general helpers in group 9 are outside it.
Those we select are, from export plants and Gulf retail; Czech hygiene training is part of the induction in a language the worker understands.
At least CZK 27,328 gross a month in 2026 (CZK 30,378 from 2027) and never below comparable Czech employees in the same role.
General information for employers, not legal or migration advice. Rules change; we re-verify before each hire.