The Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, proposed on Tuesday a legislative change so that immigrant workers can apply for their regularization themselves, also acknowledging during a parliamentary hearing the “administrative absurdity” faced by this hand of foreign work.
The Minister of the Interior presented his roadmap
“I do not find it normal that only the employer can request the regularization of the person who works for him”, declared Gérald Darmanin, heard by the law commission of the National Assembly, before which he presented his roadmap. on security and migration issues.
“It’s a balance of power which is not positive for the employee. If we change the law, it will be a good thing”, he added, while a bill on asylum and immigration must be filed in January.
Unions and defenders of foreigners have long called for a reform of regularization procedures so that employers are not the only ones able to file these files, which creates a relationship of dependence and subordination between the worker and his boss.
Gérald Darmanin brushed aside the possibility of “collective regularization”
The Minister of the Interior noted, before the law commission, the “little regard that certain employers make of the immigrant personnel they recruit”. “We have to improve (…) the integration of people who work on the soil of the Republic and who are subject to administrative absurdity on the part of the administrative functioning of the Ministry of the Interior”, he said. also recognized.
Gérald Darmanin however brushed aside the possibility of a “collective regularization”, preferring the case-by-case study of “individual regularizations”.
“My line, which I carry in the (coming) immigration text, is that we be tough on people who are (delinquent) foreigners and that we can regularize and help those who want to work and respect the laws of the Republic,” he said.
By announcing that a bill on asylum and immigration will be tabled in early 2023, President Emmanuel Macron explained last week that he wanted to put an end to an “absurd policy” which he considered both “ineffective and inhuman”.