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France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines Live (BUTTON) #Covid-19 #United Kingdom France Africa Culture Shows Fight the Fake Coronavirus notice • View the recommendations and information for travellers issued by the French Government → (BUTTON) 1. 2. / France France to set quotas for migrant workers to off-set labour shortages 164 shares Issued on: 06/11/2019 - 05:13 Screen grab Screen grab (BUTTON) Screen grab France 24 Text by: NEWS WIRES 4 min France will from next year start setting quotas for migrant workers, its labour minister said Tuesday, as President Emmanuel Macron's government seeks to toughen immigration policies in response to right-wing criticism. Advertising (BUTTON) (BUTTON) Read more Starting next year, authorities working with employers will identify industries lacking qualified candidates and facilitate the hiring of foreigners to fill the gap, Labour Minister Muriel Penicaud said. "This is about France hiring based on its needs. It's a new approach, similar to what is done in Canada or Australia," Penicaud told BFM television. Currently employers have to justify why a French citizen cannot be hired in a complex administrative process, which resulted in around 33,000 economic migrants being granted visas last year. Construction, hotels and restaurants, and some retailing sectors have long complained of a shortage of people willing to take what is often low-paying work. Information technology and engineering industries, by contrast, say France does not produce enough qualified candidates. Penicaud did not say how many foreign workers would be granted visas, nor if an applicant's nationality would be taken into account, a proposal aired by Prime Minister Edouard Philippe last month. Philippe is spearheading Macron's move to toughen rules on immigration in a bid to woo right-wing voters who accuse the government of allowing in too many foreigners despite unemployment at 8.5 percent in the second quarter. Analysts say Macron's prime political rival in the run-up to 2022 presidential elections remains the far-right National Rally (RN) leader Marine Le Pen. The prime minister is to unveil a raft of measures Wednesday signalling the tougher line, after France received a record 122,743 asylum requests last year, up 22 percent from the year before. The measures could include restrictions on migrants bringing over family members, or limiting access to health care for asylum seekers while their claims are processed. France has also called for overhauling the EU's efforts to halt the surge of migrants fleeing conflict and misery in Asia, the Middle East and Africa since 2015. Macron also wants more EU members to share the burden of taking in migrants allowed to stay, a move opposed by several countries in Eastern and Central Europe. Macron drew the ire of Bulgaria's government last week after saying in a magazine interview that he wanted migrants from Guinea or Ivory Coast, who worked in a legal way, rather than "clandestine networks of Bulgarians and Ukrainians". (AFP) Daily newsletterReceive essential international news every morning Subscribe Take international news everywhere with you! Download the France 24 app * immigration * France On the same topic Emmanuel Macron lors d'un Conseil des ministres en visioconférence le 21 décembre 2020 à Paris Emmanuel Macron lors d'un Conseil des ministres en visioconférence le 21 décembre 2020 à Paris 22/12/2020 Macron's health remains stable after Covid-19 diagnosis, says Élysée Palace French modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel is a former associate of Jeffrey Epstein, who owned an apartment building in an upmarket Paris district. 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