2023-08-30 14:23:20
Prime Minister Alexander De Croo wants to prioritize the activation of job seekers in Belgium before considering the use of undocumented people to fill jobs in shortage.
“Honestly, if I look at the level of unemployment in certain parts of the country – and unemployment is still higher in the Walloon Region than in other Regions – I think that the absolute priority is to activate our unemployed. Let’s activate our unemployed first and then see if we need other sources of labour, ”explained Mr. De Croo, interviewed by LN24.
In July, the Walloon Minister-President, Elio Di Rupo (PS), wrote to the Prime Minister asking for a relaxation of the rules on residence permits for people who have skills that cannot currently be found on the job market. job, reported Wednesday Litter.
“We think it desirable that the federal regulations evolve in order to allow these people, applicants for international protection and undocumented people, to apply to the Regions for a work permit”, says the letter. “Currently, among those with a temporary residence permit, only students and researchers are authorized to apply for a single permit”.
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The demand is backed by environmentalists. “Excellent initiative from the Walloon government! Faced with shortages on the labor market, we can no longer accept such a severe asylum policy blind to economic challenges. The federal government must react and we will question the government, ”wrote the leader of the Ecolo group in the Chamber, Gille Van den Burre, on the X network (formerly Twitter).
The MR, on the other hand, is hostile to it. “They (the left, editor’s note) refuse on the one hand to employ Walloon job seekers who are nearly 200,000, 50% of whom have been there for more than two years. But since they don’t want to go to work, don’t worry, we are going to regularize people who come from abroad, ” castigated the president, Georges-Louis Bouchez, on LN24.
The Montois says he has no objection to an economic migration policy. But this can only come as a second instance, after a prior reduction in the number of Walloon job seekers.
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