The German government is looking to introduce a new law that relaxes the country’s labour-migration regime as German employers will no longer be forced to prove that certain a position cannot be filled by a German or an EU citizen before it is offered to a foreign worker from a non-European Union country.
The law will also liberalise the regulations for offering jobs to non-Germans in specialised fields like nursing and social care, both of which are in short supply in Germany.
The German economy has been slowing down in recent months, but unemployment still stands at a historical low of 3.4%. Wage growth, however, is decelerating.
The one caveat in the proposed change concerns the status of asylum-seekers, as they will not be given easier access to the German employment market.
SOURCE: New Europe
