Labour license for foreigners coming to Russia in a visa-free regime

In January 2015, work permits and quotas for work permits for foreign nationals from visa-free countries were cancelled, and replaced with a visa-free system that requires these employees to obtain licenses before they take up employment with companies, individual entrepreneurs, lawyers or notaries. The benefits for employers of this new licensing system are significant reductions in the bureaucracy involved in issuing work permit quotas to foreign workers, as well as in the number of irregular migrants.
The new requirements were introduced with the publication on 21 April 2014 of Federal Law No. 74 - FZ "On Amending the Federal Law - On the Legal Status of Foreign Citizens in the Russian Federation."

For more information: 

• http://council.gov.ru/
• https://www.ilo.org/dyn/natlex/natlex4.detail?p_lang=en&p_isn=98776

GFMD 2014-2015 - Roundtable 1.1 "Partnerships to promote inclusion and protect the human rights of all migrants in order to achieve the full benefits of migration"

GFMD 2014-2015 - Thematic Meeting 1 "Migration in the Post-2015 UN Development Agenda"