How we can attract more foreign skilled workers

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Nancy Faeser is Federal Minister of the Interior and Homeland (SPD). Hubertus Heil is Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and Deputy Party Chairman of the SPD.

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Industry, trade, health, care: We urgently need more skilled workers in many areas. We have to pull out all the stops to leverage the potential at home and abroad.

With a training guarantee, we are helping the 1.3 million young people who have no training. The compatibility of family and work must be improved. We must become a republic of further education, so that today’s employees can also do the work of tomorrow. And we have to get better at attracting qualified people from abroad.

Our immigration system is still too sluggish, too bureaucratic, too dismissive. As a traffic light coalition, we have set out to change that.

We are doing away with a migration policy shaped by the CDU and CSU, which denied the reality of our immigration country and thus damaged our business location.

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