Questão jurídica principal
Whether the defendant could be convicted for employing foreign workers without work authorization despite a pending promise of residence permit.
Decisão extraída
A mere promise of a residence permit did not authorize work commencement; during the transitional regime, a residence permit was still required for lawful start of the employment.
Fundamentação extraída
For contingent and transition-regime employment, access to work remained subject to a permit requirement; the promise only announced future issuance and did not itself allow the employee to start work.