France: 50 new jobs open to citizens from the EU’s new member States

The government plans to open the access of workers from eastern and central European countries to 30 new jobs with a labour shortage, added to the 62 already open, for which the work permits procedures should be made easier. After the building sector and the hotel business, it is planned that some trades from the computing sector and companies' administratorship will be open. (Ref. 070412)
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The government is about to launch a second step in the “gradual and controlled” opening of the French labour market. after opening 62 trades with labour shortages to citizens of eight member States which joined the EU in 2004 (see our story n°06424,) which was later extended to Bulgarian and Romanian citizens (see our story n°070004), these workers’ access to other sectors encountering labour shortages should be made easier: work permits will be delivered without the possibility to oppose the e

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