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France to set quotas for migrant workers to off-set labour shortages

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   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
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   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,
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   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
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   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.
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   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.

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   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".
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