Definicija: In EU context, this refers to a person who is employed in an EU Member State; is protected as an employee under national employment law and/or in accordance with national practice, irrespective of the legal relationship, for the purpose of exercising genuine and effective work for, or under the direction of, someone else; is paid; and has the required adequate and specific competence, as proven by higher professional qualifications. In global context, this refers to a person falling within ILO ISCO-88 Classes 1, 2 and 3, e.g. a person with qualified as a manager, executive, professional, technician or similar, who move within the internal labour markets of trans-national corporations and international organisations, or who seek employment through international labour markets for scarce skills.
Vir definicije: Derived from Article 2(b) of Council Directive 2009/50/EC ("highly qualified employment"): http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32009L0050:EN:NOT
Vir - besedilo: European Migration Network – EMN Glossary (http://emn.intrasoft-intl.com/html/index.html)
Opomba: In some EU Member States, there is a distinction between highly skilled, referring to someone who has the required adequate and specific competence, as proven by higher educational qualifications, and/or extensive (vocational) experience; and highly qualified, referring to someone who has required adequate and specific competence, as proven by higher educational qualifications only. In EU context, however, these terms are considered to be inter-changeable, e.g. the definition for highly skilled used in the Migratory Statistics Regulation (862/2007) uses the definition for highly qualified.