Social issue of illegal employment of foreigners in the Czech Republic

Foreigners and their employers violate the legislation in the Czech Republic in connection with illegal stay and illegal employment. The objective of this thesis is to analyze how this violation occurs. The theoretical part of the thesis analysed, through the method of a secondary data analysis, the laws and documents relating to the issue of foreigners? stay and employment. The research part of this thesis is focused on employment checks carried out by labour offices, the Alien Police and the customs administration in 2009. Processing this thesis part involved the method of data analysis and the method of questioning when the data from the staff of these institutions was acquired through the technique of structured interviews. After evaluating the research results, the hypothesis of the thesis was confirmed; the hypothesis stated that the number of illegally employed foreigners has increased after the Czech Republic joined the Schengen area countries. This thesis may serve as a learning aid for customs officers who will be entrusted with checks of foreigners? employment. For this reason, the research part of the thesis detailed checks of foreigners? employment as carried out by customs authorities