Migration - Bavaria sees progress for refugees on the labor market
The state government and the Federal Employment Agency (BA) believe that the integration of refugees into the Bavarian labor market is making good progress. In the meantime, 30,000 Ukrainians and 82,000 persons entitled to asylum from the eight most important countries of origin are employed and subject to social security contributions. This means that "nowhere else in Germany is their integration into employment as successful as in Bavaria", said Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) in Munich on Wednesday.
However, it is also true that a third of refugees from Ukraine and the eight most important countries of origin are unemployed. "So there is still a lot of potential that we have to use in view of the labor shortage," said Herrmann. The German government should no longer pay newly arrived Ukrainians citizen's benefits immediately.
Language and work are the two keys to integration into society, said Social Affairs Minister Ulrike Scharf (CSU). The head of the BA regional directorate, Ralf Holtzwart, said: "I expect everyone to contribute to the labor market within the scope of their possibilities." It doesn't have to be your dream job straight away, he said, as it is also possible to start and progress in a part-time job. He called on employers to give refugees a chance, even if they do not yet speak perfect German and do not fit the job profile perfectly. "We can provide part-time training and also finance job-related language courses," said Holtzwart.
There are currently 132,000 vacancies in Bavaria. The unemployment rate is only 3.3 percent, and only 8.2 percent for foreigners - both of which are the best figures in Germany. However, the integration of refugees into the labor market is a long-distance run, said Herrmann.
According to the BA, around 30,000 of the Ukrainian war refugees in Bavaria are in employment subject to social security contributions, 63,000 are receiving citizen's benefits, 49,000 are on language or integration courses or are underemployed and 24,000 are unemployed. The situation is better for people from the eight most important non-European countries of origin for asylum seekers - Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria: 82,000 of them are in employment subject to social security contributions, 51,000 are receiving a citizen's allowance, 34,000 are on courses or underemployed and 23,000 are unemployed.
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Source: www.stern.de
