Does France need labor immigration?

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Workers on a construction site in Tinténiac, in October. AFP / DAMIEN MEYER

THE CHEKING PROCESS – Despite 2.3 million unemployed in France, the executive wants to facilitate the professional integration of immigrants. Is right ?

For lack of sufficient arms to provide to French companies, the government is eyeing foreign labour. As part of the draft law on asylum and immigration, planned for the first half of 2023, the executive plans to reach out more to immigrant workers in an attempt to overcome the recruitment difficulties that have exploded in France since two years. In this sense, the Ministers of Labor and the Interior, Olivier Dussopt and Gérald Darmanin plead in particular for the creation of a residence permit “job in tension“, they revealed Wednesday in an interview with the Monde.

«This specific residence permit will be there to regularize a situation because we demonstrate that we are working in a profession in tension“, details the Minister of Labor. In addition, the government would like to put an end to the waiting period which prevents asylum seekers from working during their first six months in France while paving the way for workers in an irregular situation to be able to apply for their regularization themselves without going through by the employer.

This will of the government is the subject of many criticisms. The elected representatives of the Republicans and the National Rally hastened to denounce a text of “posture“. Marine Le Pen, leader of RN deputies, seeing it as a “illegal immigrants regularization campaign” in disguise, when Bruno Retailleau accuses the government of “cowardiceon the issue of shortage occupations. But beyond political positions, does France need labor immigration?

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