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Date Published: 03/06/2022

ARCHIVED - Spain plans radical employment reform to legalise foreign workers

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The new law would allow skilled irregular immigrants as foreign students to work in Spain

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Spain plans radical employment reform to legalise foreign workers

The government in Spain is drafting new legislation which will make it easier for foreigners to obtain work visas in an attempt to make up for the staff shortages in many sectors across the country.

The reform of the Immigration Law proposed by the Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration would be a landmark move in Spain, potentially making life a lot easier for countless irregular immigrants, but the move is fundamentally an economic one: the idea is that these workers would join the transport, agriculture, hotel and construction industries, which are currently all struggling to find staff.

The current immigration regulation, government sources argue, “is not agile enough to respond to the bottlenecks that occur in the labour market.”

The draft of the decree is still subject to change depending on the input from other ministries but at the moment, it has three main facets: allowing Spanish companies to hire from abroad; allowing foreign students to take up work; and creating a framework through which irregular immigrants in Spain can receive work permits.

Organisations working with migrants estimate that some 500,000 foreigners currently reside in Spain in an irregular situation, although there are no exact official figures.

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