Bjerregaard to push for more immigrant hirings in Copenhagen
Copenhagen Post:
Copenhagen's favourite for the mayor post, Social Democrat Ritt Bjerregaard, plans to demand that companies need to employ a minimum number of workers with a different ethnic background than Danish if they want to work for the city.
Bjerregaard said that if she was voted mayor in the 15 November local elections, she would implement a social clause in the directives used by the city to select contractors, daily newspaper Berlingske Tidende reported on Monday.
'The company needs to document that it participates actively to solve the city's social problems. It should serve as an incitement to hire workers of other ethnic origin than Danish,' the 64-year-old political veteran told the newspaper.
She declined to pinpoint how many should be hired, and said she had no plans to implement regulations on how long the alien workers needed to be in the contractors' service.
Employer organisation Danish Trade and Service said they found the proposal positive, but emphasised that the city needed to live up to its own demands as well.
Conservative candidate for mayor Mogens Lønborg said he felt that companies should be selected according to their qualifications and not their personnel policies.
'Local authorities should not force our suppliers to push qualified Danish workers further down the line,' he said.
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posted by Adam Lawson @ 1:22 PM
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I recently saw a small article in a newspaper reporting the results of a study: almost 90% (87%, as I recall) of immigrants to western Europe in recent years were uneducated. Right now this article is not at hand, and I cannot find a link to it on the www.
"The company needs to document that it participates actively to solve the city's social problems."
This isn't the job of a private business enterprise. I would say it is closer to the job of the government to not pursue policies, e.g. immigration policies, that either create or worsen "social problems".
Somehow it is not surprising that this simple observation is missing from the discussion, at least as presented here.
Which again makes it seem that immigration, even very problematic immigration, is not, or is never, seen as something optional, and, well, we'll just have to deal with whatever problems arise, no matter how serious.
It is very curious.
Such dishonesty and selective use of logic can only be put down to racially sensitive political correctness.
almost 90% (87%, as I recall) of immigrants to western Europe in recent years were uneducated
I hope that is not true but I fear that it is. If you look at the unemployment rates in Europe, a lot of the jobless do seem to be immigrants.
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