Switzerland: Gov't shelves plans for quotas on foreign workers
May 20, 2009
The government does not want limit access to the Swiss labour market for 17 European Union member states despite concerns about increasing domestic unemployment.
The decision means that citizens from neighbouring Germany, France and Italy will continue to have unrestricted access to jobs in Switzerland.
The re-introduction of quotas would have had a limited impact and would have resulted in more paperwork, particularly for small- and medium-sized enterprises, the justice ministry said.
The Turkish Weekly
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