Spain: CCOO criticizes management of immigrant workers influx

The Workers' Commission union (CCOO) qualified of "incongruous" the catalogue of trades with labor shortages (Catalogue de occupaciones de dificil cobertura), the Spanish government's main tool to organize the influx of immigrant workers. (Ref. 080266)
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For Juan José Palacios, in charge of
migrations at the CCOO, the catalogue updated every quarter by the public
employment services (INEM) for every region is a failure. He thinks that the document
has “too many loopholes and incongruities” to be really useful. Regularly updated
thanks to crossed data provided by the INEM’s local branches, trade unions and
employers’ associations, the document is supposed to examine closely the labor
market and draw a list of job offers which can’t find applican

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