Tendințe
Who actually comes to Moldova
Four countries cover almost the entire flow. Why that decides your timeline.
- 01Patru țări, nu o sută
- 02Ce înseamnă un coridor format
- 03Ce nu spun cifrele
SourcesZiua.md
01 · Recruitment at source
Connecting Moldovan entrepreneurs with workers from Asia
We meet him before you do: we select in his own country, verify identity and experience for the post, and sit down with him. You are not searching through CVs — you choose among people already checked.
✓Documents verified manually✓The bureaucratic process, carried by us end to end✓Profiles confirmed as active✓Candidates never pay
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01/ 06
Construction
Site behind schedule? Workers whose papers are already in order.
Week 0-1
The requirement file
We set the sector, the roles, the volume, the pay and the housing, and sign the service contract. From here the schedule is ours.
The services contract signed here fixes the calendar. From signature the deadlines are ours — except the state's, which we show you separately.
02/ 06
Agriculture
The harvest won't wait. Seasonal workers with papers in order.
Week 1-4
Selection at source
We recruit in Nepal, Bangladesh, India and Uzbekistan, verifying identity, documents and on-the-job experience, with an interview before any commitment.
You run the interview if you want to. We do not send a polished CV: we show you the person, what they can do and what they cannot.
03/ 06
Factories & plants
Line idle for lack of people? Operators with papers in order.
Week 4-10
The procedure with the authorities
Work notice, visa, residence permit. We file, follow up and answer requests. You see the exact stage, not a promise.
The longest part sits here, and it is not with us. Every week you hear where the file is and what it waits on, not that it is “in progress”.
04/ 06
HoReCa & Hospitality
Hiring in HoReCa? Find people whose papers are already in order.
Week 8-15
Arrival and the first days
Transport, declared housing, registrations, equipment, and handover at the workplace, ready for the first shift.
Housing is declared in the file before arrival. The person starts a shift knowing where they sleep and how they get to work.
8-15 weeks is the range on standard projects, from contract to first shift worked. It depends on the authorities' timelines and on the season, not on us, and the updated range sits in the file at every stage.
05/ 06
Restaurant
Restaurant short-staffed? Waiters and helpers, papers in order.
06/ 06
Courier / Delivery
Couriers who know the city and have their papers in order.
Recap · the road, to scale
Who holds the clock, on every stretch.
We set the sector, the roles, the volume, the pay and the housing, and sign the service contract. From here the schedule is ours.
Scroll to watch the calendar fill · press a stage to jump to it
The bars are drawn to scale from the same weeks published above. The longest stretch is not ours — we show it anyway.
Chapter 2 · The administration after
They are at work. From here, we run the administration with you.
Recruitment ends at the first shift. Hours, rotas, housing and permits start there — the administrative work that eats time without ever showing up in production. You can keep it in-house, the way you do now, or hand it to us on a separate contract: the record builds itself on one screen, and the permits, the renewals and the dealings with the authorities stay in our care.
Optional service, contracted separately. It is not part of recruitment and it does not switch itself on — you ask for it when you want it, and you know exactly what you pay.
1 · One worked hour, all the way to the accounts
You know who is on shift without making a call
Who is working, on which shift, at what output on the line. It updates itself; you open it when you need it, not when somebody rings you.
2 · One worked hour, all the way to the accounts
The hours add themselves up
Attendance and hours go straight into the record. Your accountant gets a finished file, not photos on WhatsApp and a notebook re-read at month end.
3 · One worked hour, all the way to the accounts
It works with the accountant you already have
We do not change your accountant and we do not sell you another one. The AI assistant prepares what they need, in their format, from the same hours you see.
And, alongside
The permit tells you itself when it expires
Housing declared, documents current, and the renewal shows up on your screen in good time — not a week before, when it is already late.
One overview, for the employer in Chișinău
How many people are at work today, on which shift, what each line produced, which documents expire this month. One screen, not five files and three phone calls.
The boundary, stated precisely
Hours and output. Not movements.
You see who worked, how long, and at what output per line or shift. You do not see where anybody has been, because we do not collect it and store it nowhere. Location history in the hands of the party that controls someone's right to remain is not timekeeping, it is leverage — and that line we do not cross at any price.
What stays in-house, and what do we carry?
Tell us which roles you need and how much of the administration after should stay with us. You get the plan and the cost, itemised.
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Monday, 08:14
Everyone is at work. You know it at a glance.
This is where the road ends: the people we brought are on shift, the hours add themselves up, and whatever expires this month is already on the screen. You ring nobody to find out.
What do you want to carry, and what goes into the system?
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WORKMATE · 2026
The public dossier
The numbers a decision is made on.
We work only with figures that carry a public source. Every number below is a statement by an institution of the Republic of Moldova, and the source opens straight from the text: the full sentence, who said it, when.
3,700
foreigners obtained a work permit in six months, .
13,000+
on the labour market, over 9,000 of them in Chișinău.
20-25%
. The same broadcast names the sectors: construction, delivery, agriculture.
~16,000
permits a year: . Not a legal quota, not a stock of available places.
8,700 lei
for an unskilled foreign worker in 2026. You hear it from us before the contract, not after.
1 June 2027
the takes effect, harmonised with European law.
The law gives you no quota. It gives you a procedure.
Since 2019 the Republic of Moldova no longer publishes a numeric ceiling for foreign labour. Every worker enters through an individual employer application, assessed by the General Inspectorate for Migration. Your outcome does not depend on a number you wait for, it depends on a file submitted properly. We carry the file.
The real ceiling is administrative, not legal: the state can process around , and roughly were issued in the first six months of 2026. You are not competing against a quota, you are competing for a desk. And at that desk the file that wins is the early, complete one, not the first one.
The political direction is stated at the highest level and it is consistent. The prime minister speaks of over the medium term, and the state employment agency sets itself for this year. You are not in a tolerated niche. You are inside a declared public policy.
The framework taking effect on is harmonised with European law, as part of Moldova's path toward the Union. Tomorrow's rules will resemble the EU's, and a file built to that standard today does not get rewritten then. It continues.
The prime minister says the country to reach average European productivity. We do not plan on that figure. We read it as the direction of public policy.
Until the current regime applies. Whoever starts now enters the new framework with a compliance record behind them, not from zero.
: the real corridors of the flow. Those are the ones we recruit through, with an office in Chișinău.
The prime minister spoke of 300,000 workers. A week later the economy minister and explained the state can process around 16,000 permits a year. We give you both links, because a decision like this is made on checkable numbers, not on enthusiasm.
Of ten statements we started from in the press, six survived independent verification. The rest are not on this page. A figure without a source you can open has no place here.
What does the empty post cost you?
YOUR estimate, formula in the open: lost output on an unfilled post nears 1.5–2× the monthly salary. Adjust the coefficient as you see fit.
Estimated cost of inaction
~36.000 MDL
2 × 12.000 × 1.5 × 30/30 · orientative estimate, not our figure
~50%
of construction staffing needs unfilled
Moldova 1 · 2026
16,2 mil.
lei in wage arrears across ~90 companies
Moldova 1 · 2026
296
violations recorded by IGM in one year
Europa Liberă · 2025
Direct questions
What an employer asks before signing.
Eight questions, eight short answers. If one of them reads like a brochure, tell us and we rewrite it.
8-15 weeks on standard projects, from contract to the first shift worked. The long part is not ours: the file sits with the authorities, on their terms. You see the stage every week — not "in progress", but where exactly it sits and what it waits on.
The employer pays for recruitment and the procedure. The candidate never pays anything — that is the Employer Pays standard (IRIS / ILO), auditable, not a line on a website. Travel and housing are written into the contract before you sign, not discovered after.
You hear it from us, not a month later from someone else. We look at the cause first, because often it is not the person but conditions that changed after arrival. Replacement terms are set in your contract, on your case — we do not sell a blanket guarantee we cannot honour.
The work authorisation, visa and permit are issued by the authorities, and the person starts only once they hold the right. We file, follow up and answer requests. Their decision we do not guarantee — it says so plainly on "What we don't guarantee".
English, at working level. Romanian is learned on site, in the months after arrival, and we promise nothing else. What we do carry is the safety vocabulary and the mediation through the first weeks.
Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Uzbekistan. Not for cost, but because we have partners at source there and corridors whose procedure we know step by step. A corridor we don't command is a date we cannot give you.
A state on a file, not an adjective in an advert: identity, experience and real availability for the post, each with its own state. You can read the process step by step rather than take our word for it.
You tell us the trade, the role, how many people and whether you provide housing — four taps. You get the plan, the cost and the legal steps. If we cannot cover what you asked for, we say so rather than leave you waiting.
Have a question that isn't here?
Analyses
The market, read from sources
Six analyses for an employer making a decision. Every figure points at its source, and where we have none, we say so.
Politici publice
300,000 or 16,000? The figure a decision rests on
The prime minister and the economy minister said different things. Both can be true — and one of them wrecks your plan.
- 01Două cifre, aceeași lună
- 02De ce contează diferența
- 03Cum se citește o cifră din presă
SourcesRadio MoldovaTVR Moldova
Procedural
The IGM procedure, from file to permit
Which part of the wait is yours, which is the state's, and where files actually stall.
- 01Cine ține ceasul, pe fiecare bucată
- 02Pragul de salariu e o condiție, nu o recomandare
- 03Unde se blochează dosarele, de fapt
SourcesDelucru.mdZiua.md
Legislație
What changes on 1 June 2027
The date is fixed and public. The implementing rules are not — and that is the whole difference.
- 01O dată fixă, nu un zvon
- 02Ce înseamnă pentru cine începe acum
- 03Ce nu-ți putem spune
Sourcesgov.md
Piață
Chisinau: where the gap actually is
Over 13,000 vacancies, most in the capital. What a quarter-staff deficit means.
- 01Unde e golul
- 02Concentrarea e o veste bună
- 03Calculul care contează
SourcesMoldpresZiar.md, relatând emisiunea de la Radio MoldovaDelucru.md
Practica noastră
The first two weeks decide the rest
A practice report, not research. We found no study we could cite honestly.
- 01Ce urmează, această analiză nu e research
- 02Limba nu se rezolvă cu o promisiune
- 03Primele două săptămâni decid restul
The analyses are published in Romanian. The sources cited are Romanian, and machine-translating a legal threshold is exactly the kind of error we do not ship.
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