The French government wants a new residency permit for foreigners to plug skills shortages and to allow some asylum seekers to enter the workforce quickly under proposed revisions to immigration rules.
PARIS — newspaper that draft legislation to be sent to Parliament in early 2023 sought to balance labor market needs and voter concerns over identity, integration and security.The French reform comes at a time when other European countries are also loosening immigration rules to deal with labor market pressures, although it is a particularly sensitive subject in France.
In Britain, however, where Brexit has exacerbated labor shortages, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pushed back against calls from companies to liberalize immigration to help boost growth. A report published by the INSEE national statistics agency in November highlighted builders, care assistants, butchers and plumbers as among professions suUnemployment in France fell to its lowest levels in 14 years in the third quarter but still exceeded 7%.
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