The massive refugee influx into Germany continues. In the face of this wave, an increasing number of big business leaders and employers’ federations are campaigning for refugee access to the jobs market via specially adapted training courses and the doing away with what are seen as excessive legal hurdles. The Federal Employment Agency intends to extend its ‘Early Intervention’ project (training for skilled refugees) across the country. In businesses such as Siemens, Deutsche Bahn, and Evonik, specific refugee training pilot projects have recently got underway, the underlying reasons for which are both moral as well as professional given that the German economy is facing a manpower shortage.
German business heads take a moral as well as a business stance. Just last weekend Germany’s federal police counted a record 20,000 new arrivals into the country. Even if welcoming these refuges with open arms demands much in terms of willpower already some are thinking more long-term and reflecting on their integration into German society and into the German workplace. “It is high time that the big business bosses actually decide on a certain number of things.
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