“Germany is running out of skilled workers,” Detlef Scheele, chairman of the Federal Employment Agency told the Süddeutsche Zeitung in an interview published Monday. Germany can only solve the problem, he said, by training up unskilled workers, allowing women employees with part-time jobs to work more hours – and, above all, by bringing immigrants into the country. “If refugees are making their way from Afghanistan, Germany should do its part to take them in,” Scheele stressed. The Skilled Immigration Act came into force in March 2020 – the month of the country’s first national Covid-19 lockdown. READ ALSO: 10 things you need to know about Germany’s new law to attract skilled foreign workers

Source: The Local August 24, 2021 08:26 UTC