One of Germany’s biggest car companies, Volkswagen (VW), started offering programs and help for migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in 2015, when more than a million people arrived in Germany. Now, they and their partners have helped more than 5,000 people say the company.
In Germany there is a labor shortage in the field of train drivers. That’s why some German states have launched training programs to attract migrants and refugees to fill the gap.
A floral workshop has been set up in the French capital to help female refugees and other vulnerable women win back their confidence by teaching them the delicate art of flower arrangement. The French charity Du Pain & des Roses (Bread & Roses) runs the workshop once a week in an accommodation center in eastern Paris. For the women attending the workshop, the classes offer a breath of fresh air, and sometimes, the start of a new career. InfoMigrants reports.
A group of 25 Malians without papers, who had been illegally employed on a big building site in Paris in 2016, have each been awarded €34,000 in damages, with interest, for "systematic racial discrimination" by a French employment tribunal.
Germany is desperately in need of nurses, IT experts and other skilled workers — and is looking outside the EU to recruit them. The government and business leaders have now agreed a plan to make the process easier.
Gorgui Lamine Sow, an undocumented migrant from Senegal has become a hero in Spain after he saved a man in a wheelchair from a fire in the man’s apartment. Now, the Spanish authorities are considering whether to award Sow a residency permit. More than 55,000 people have signed an online petition asking that they do so.
Italian authorities have discovered dozens of cases of irregular employment and exploitation of Italians and foreign workers in Italy's northern region of Trentino-Alto Adige. The cases took place in the agricultural sector over a period of just three months.
The president of Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Hans-Eckhard Sommer, has spoken out about the possible consequences of so many migrants and refugees working in the low-wage employment sector. Sommer said it could damage the German economy in the long-term.
Over the past eight years, Italy has granted the lowest number of work permits to foreigners in the European Union. This has contributed to an increase in illegal immigration, said representatives from the Foundation Leone Moressa during a recent hearing in the Italian Lower House.
Carabinieri police say that 108 people have been arrested in 2019 so far for exploitative labor practices, that's double the number in 2018. Over 3,000 workers were found to have been subjected to exploitation in between 2018 and 2019.
German police units coordinated a series of raids on 18 premises across six federal states on November 13 in an operation targeting criminal gangs involved in the illegal smuggling of migrants.
As the UK gears up for an election on December 12, all parties are busy launching their manifestoes and making promises. The Conservative Party, currently ruling as a minority government, has just promised a fast track “NHS Visa” to make it easier to attract and retain the hundreds of thousands of non-British health workers on which the country relies. Previously they would impose a 'zero-tolerance' policy on migration.