Work or lose benefits, Denmark tells new migrants

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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
REUTERS

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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Boggles my mind how anyone can accept that european countries are just giving free everything to people who came into europe with no good reason to be there. There's no way you can say that european leaders care for their actual people.

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Migrants in Denmark will be told to complete 37 hours' work a week in order to receive welfare benefits, the government said on Tuesday.

Migration and integration have become key issues for voters in Denmark, which boasts some of Europe's toughest immigration policies.

The government, which has set a target of zero asylum applications, said the plan was designed to help migrants assimilate into society.


"We want to introduce a new work logic where people have a duty to contribute and be useful, and if they can't find a regular job, they have to work for their allowance," Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told reporters.

"For too many years we have done a disservice to a lot of people by not demanding anything of them," she added of the plan, which needs to be approved by lawmakers.

Mai Villadsen, spokeswoman of the left-wing Unity List, condemned Tuesday's announcement as misguided.

She told broadcaster TV2:

I'm afraid this will end up as state-supported social dumping, sending people into crazy jobs.
Initially, it will be a requirement for those who have been on benefits for three to four years, and who have not attained a certain level of schooling and proficiency in Danish.

Working hours will be a minimum of 37 hours a week, Frederiksen said.

According to the government, six out of 10 women from the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey do not participate in the Danish labour market.

The plan says it aims to integrate 20 000 people by pushing them to find some form of work, through local government offices.

"It could be a job on the beach picking up cigarette butts or plastic... (or) helping to solve various tasks within a company," employment minister Peter Hummelgaard said.

"The most important thing for us is that people get out of their homes," he added.

Frederiksen's government, in power since 2019, has set a target of zero asylum applications, which have already fallen. Just 851 were received between 1 January and 31 July this year.

According to official statistics, 11 percent of Denmark's 5.8 million people are immigrants, and 58 percent of those are citizens of a country that Copenhagen classifies as "non-Western".

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welcome the cultural/civilisation clash,it seems fucking converted native european,too pale aspirine white ,and not native arabic/mena/or native muslims, the other day, because i had some internet connection problem i was at a local cybercafé on a computer ,the cybercafé is owned by sri-lankeses, i heard a french converted native woman,having a speach,like "than you should to fear god " and all plenty of bullshits who came with,etc...
even maghrebis who live here in france/europe are not so radical most of the time

the fact than the danish PM Mette Frederiksen is a Social-democrat is quite atypical in the political circus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mette_Frederiksen