Germany’s Federal Government is working on a new law that will enable skilled foreign workers in this country to gain citizenship after only three years of living and working there.
The plan was revealed by the German news portal The Pioneer last Wednesday, on September 7, which claims it has seen the government’s new skilled labour strategy.
According to the newspaper, the key mission statement of the government’s new skilled labour strategy is “Germany must be an immigration country that is also attractive in the international competition for skilled workers.”
On Wednesday, the Federal Government presented the draft of its new Skilled Labor Strategy during the skilled workers’ summit in Berlin, in which representatives from politics, business and associations discussed new ways and measures to combat the increasing shortage of skilled workers. The government, however, did not mention the possibility of gaining citizenship after only three years in the country.
During the summit, Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil, who was also the organizer, said that for many companies in Germany, the search for skilled workers is already an existential question, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
“Our country needs skilled workers to tackle digitization and the conversion to a climate-neutral economy,” the Minister said.
The country’s Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection, Robert Habeck, also pointed out the urgent need for more skilled workers for the country, both from within Germany and the EU, as well as third countries.
“We have to make education and training more attractive and we have to open ourselves up to immigration much more and promote together that Germany is a cosmopolitan country with interesting and high-quality jobs,” he said.
During the summit, the Federal Government also presented the five focus points through which it intends to reduce labour shortages. These are contemporary training, targeted training, increasing job potential more effectively and increasing labour force participation, improving the quality of work and changing the working culture, and finally, the modernization of immigration and reducing emigration.