Consultations will be opened “from November” to revise the list of occupations in tension, said Thursday the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, while the government wants to promote the employment of immigrant workers in sectors in shortage of labor. ‘work.
“As of November, this month, I am opening consultations with the social partners (…) to, based on economic data, revise this list, ensure that the professions which are not in tension are not in this list (…) and that the professions which have become professions in tension can integrate it”, declared Olivier Dussopt on Franceinfo.
“There is already a list of occupations in tension. This list, which corresponds to approximately thirty occupations, sectors, is fixed by decree. It has a regional variation to take into account the characteristics of the economy, and it must be revised at regular intervals. We plan to revise it for the beginning of 2023,” he added.
“There’s nothing massive about it”
The government on Wednesday unveiled the main lines of its immigration bill, which it praised for its “balance” between tougher deportations and an outstretched hand for immigrant workers. Olivier Dussopt notably pleaded for a “job in tension” residence permit, in order to recruit in sectors with a labor shortage. “It concerns between a few thousand and a few tens of thousands of people,” said the minister on Franceinfo. “It’s not a massive regularization plan.”
For “people who have been in our territory for a long time, who work, but who are in an irregular situation and who occupy positions today in sectors that are called shortage occupations”, what “we offer is is to put an end to a form of hypocrisy and, on a case-by-case basis, to allow these men and women (…) to request their regularization and to obtain a residence permit in this context”, he said. he explains. “What we are proposing is a case-by-case regularization. There is nothing massive about all this,” he insisted.