CURRENT PROBLEMS OF THE EU LABOUR MARKET (THE CASE OF SLOVAKIA)

The process of globalization influences not only economic development and international trade of the countries but has also positive impact on the labour market and increases cross-border mobility of labour force. A part of the economic freedoms is also the freedom of movement for people, which has not only a positive aspect, but also a negative aspect as well, because the removal of border controls and administrative barriers creates conditions for possible unwanted phenomena to Slovak labour market. Labour migration has multiple determinants, but the most important is the determinant which improves the economic situation of the individual. The citizens of different countries cross borders to work in another country with the aim to increase their standard of life. The goal of the paper is to analyse the current situation on the labour market in Slovakia and to highlight the positive and negative aspects of freedom of labour movement, particularly workers from third countries. The paper focuses on the migrant workers and does not include the refugees from Asia and Africa (i.e. Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other). In principle, the migration policy of the European Union can be seen as legal and legitimate migration of labour from EU member states, EEA states and from third countries.