The Czech Republic is where our group placed more Filipino workers than anywhere else — more than nine hundred in 2025, nearly a fifth of the national programme — and where the process is most predictable: a government programme, a single permit, a labour office, a ministry, and a Philippine labour office in the same city as the visa centre. This page is the route from brief to first shift, written for the decision-makers who read English.
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.
Your company signs the contract, provides the accommodation, files the vacancy and the programme application in its name, registers the employee and pays the wage — it is the only employer. Orienta Czech prepares every document, acts before the Labour Office, the garant and the Ministry under your power of attorney, coordinates the Embassy, meets the worker at the airport and runs the aftercare; its coordinators speak Czech and English. Prime Search in Makati sources, tests and deploys under its DMW licence, with your manager choosing the people. We do not employ or lease the workers and do not run them through a third company.
The group's EU delivery entity holds its licence here; the largest client references are here — automotive suppliers, metal plants, logistics operators, food producers, contractors — and more than nine hundred Filipinos were placed by Orienta Czech in 2025, nearly a fifth of the national programme's Philippine intake, with a target above a thousand for 2026. The Philippine Embassy's Migrant Workers Office and the Czech visa process meet in Prague, which shortens the Philippine side of every file. Czech Television, TV Nova, Novinky, Euro, Forbes and Hospodářské noviny have covered the demand and the quota debate; the Czech-language site holds the case studies and the media archive.
Three things differ from the group's other markets. First, the quota: the Philippine capacity is released monthly and in 2026 was gone within hours, so cohorts are timed to the release calendar, not to the production plan alone. Second, the wage criterion: CZK 27,328 gross in 2026 and CZK 30,378 in 2027 is the floor regardless of the collective agreement, and the vacancy must match comparable positions. Third, the paperwork is in Czech — the vacancy, the programme file, the Ministry's correspondence — which is what the power of attorney and the bilingual coordinators are for.
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 — the programme and the Employee Card work from a single specialist; shifts of twenty to a hundred are planned in cohorts timed to the monthly quota release.
Your company, always, with a standard Czech employment contract. Orienta Czech administers under your power of attorney and Prime Search recruits in Manila; neither employs the workers.
Three to five months from order to start; first arrivals are planned within 120 days when the vacancy, the programme filing and the selection run in parallel.
Not for the permit. Candidates are briefed in English with Czech safety vocabulary; plants run English-speaking team leaders; Czech courses are arranged in the first year where the employer wants them.
On filipincidofirem.cz — the Czech guide set, references, case studies and media, maintained with this site as one cs/en pair.
General information for employers, not legal or migration advice. Rules change; we re-verify before each hire.