The logistics parks along the D1, D5 and D8 run three shifts the local market no longer fills, and Filipino warehouse staff have worked in them for years. The Czech programme adds one condition logistics employers must plan around: the position must sit in CZ-ISCO groups 4 to 8, which decides how a picker or a forklift driver is classified and paid. This page covers the roles, the condition, the forklift qualification and the peak-season calendar.
Forklift and reach-truck drivers (CZ-ISCO 8344), warehouse operators and inventory clerks (4321) and team leaders fall within the programme's groups 4 to 8; packers and pickers do when their real duties — scanning, inventory transactions, equipment — place them in the warehouse-operator category rather than in elementary occupations (group 9), which the programme does not cover. We classify every role by its duties and pay before filing, because a vacancy classified in group 9 is refused at the garant, and the wage criterion of CZK 27,328 (CZK 30,378 from 2027) must hold for each. Forklift drivers obtain the Czech operator qualification after arrival; Philippine and Gulf licences count as experience that shortens the course.
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.
A Czech programme place is taken at a monthly release, the Ministry decides in sixty to ninety days, and arrivals follow within weeks — so a cohort that must be on shift in November is filed in May. We plan logistics recruitment as a permanent Filipino core, hired on two-year cards, promoted to team leaders in the second year, with local flexible labour for the peak itself. Candidates are tested at our Makati facilities on WMS and scanner workflows, pick rate and accuracy, and on forklift handling where facilities allow; your operations manager watches live and interviews the same day.
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.
Only if the cohort is filed in spring: quota release, 60–90 days at the Ministry, then arrival. We plan a permanent Filipino core with local flexible labour for the peak.
When the real duties classify them as warehouse operators (CZ-ISCO 4321) rather than elementary occupations (group 9); we classify each role before filing.
Yes — the Czech operator qualification, obtained after arrival; Philippine and Gulf licences shorten the course.
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.