Work Permit Holders Association

Dear Members,

We will send a report of our current  issues to the government very shortly. We believe that many of us was able to solve their problem and many of us could not. We know that every case is not same. Therefore it is important that you write your problem and reason of that to us. We hope that Government will have time to see our issues with great importance.

You can mail us at:

work.permit.ha@gmail.com

general.secretary@wpholders.se

WPHA wishes a very happy new year to everyone. We wish that the system will give us priority to solve today’s problem as soon as 2019 begins.

Dear Members,

Earlier we have announced that the AGM will be held on December 16, 2018. Your presence in the meeting  is highly important for our future plan. The AGM also gives opportunity to share knowledge and information that always served best to all of us. The meeting place and time are given below:

Place: Sensus Stockholm, Torkel Knutssonsgatan 39, 118 49 Stockholm.

Time: 17:00

Sincerely,

Rafiqul Islam, General Secretary

Dear Members,

Our annual general meeting will be held on December 16, 2018. A agenda of the meeting will be sent to your mail. Information about meeting place and time will be published by next week.

Sincerely,

Tawhid Amanullah

President/ WPHA

Dear members,

Here is a basic but important checklist which you should follow while you are thinking about to apply for your work permit or work permit extension.

Salary:

You should be offered a salary in accordance with the Swedish Collective agreements or in line with the occupation or industrial practice.  It is also important that you should have salary increment every year. Please communicate with your  relevant labor union to know more about it.

Insurances:

The migrations agency requires that your employer must assure you following insurances:

• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Occupational Injury Insurance
• Occupational Pension Insurance

It is important that the insurance must starts from the day you begin your work.

Vacation:

You should have right to have 25 days paid vacation every year. However, it is also important that you must take your vacation every year (At least 20 days. You can save rest of the 5 days to use in your next year).We have experienced last year that in some cases vacation payment was provided every month with the salary (the term used as “semester ersättning / vacation compensation”). This practice is incorrect. If you still have this issue, please inform your employer for correction.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any kind of assistant.

Since 2016, WPHA has been working to involve and inform businesses, government agencies, work permit holders, media and other non-profit organizations to address the unfair deportation of foreign workers. The WPHA, participated in Almedalen Week 2018 and to represent foreign workers and employers’ perspectives to the attention of the public and policy makers.

Continue reading “WPHA Almedalen 2018 Report”

It is important that foreign workers need to know about work permit regulation and labor market practice in reality. WPHA found that there is a big informational gap between these two subjects. WPHA believes that for this informational gap many work permit holders are in uncertain situation and many of them are already got deportation unfairly. Therefore it is important to discuss the issue. We invite every one join the seminar during Almedalen Week 2018.

http://program.almedalsveckan.info/event/view/54796

WPHA is always open to integrate all interested group in the dialogue. As a part of it Diversify Foundation showed its interest to have a survey from both employees and employers perspective. WPHA thinks that the result of the survey will help other stakeholders to understand the subject in detail. Please check the following link for more information about the survey and Diversify Foundation.

https://www.diversifyfoundation.org/