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Ministers hope the measures will persuade up to 20,000 immigrants, predominantly women born in Islamic countries, to get jobs amid an acute labour shortage
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Work or lose benefits, Denmark tells new migrants
Ministers hope the measures will persuade up to 20,000 immigrants, predominantly women born in Islamic countries, to get jobs amid an acute labour shortage
Ministers hope the measures will persuade up to 20,000 immigrants, predominantly women born in Islamic countries, to get jobs amid an acute labour shortage
REUTERS
Oliver Moody
Wednesday September 08 2021, 5.00pm BST, The Times
Denmark will force thousands of foreign residents to work at least 37 hours a week or lose their state benefits.
Ministers hope to push up to 20,000 immigrants, predominantly women born in Islamic countries, to get jobs amid an acute national labour shortage and tensions over migrant-dominated “ghettos”.
“People have a duty to contribute and make themselves useful and if they can’t find a regular job they will have to work for their [welfare] allowance,” said Mette Frederiksen, 43, the country’s Social Democrat prime minister. “For too many years we have done a disservice to people by not expecting anything of them.”
Over the past decade successive Danish governments have enacted increasingly tough measures to restrict non-European immigration and compel arrivals to integrate.
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