Germany Forging Ahead With Effort to Attract Skilled Workers

Germany’s ruling coalition is pushing ahead with efforts to attract more skilled workers from abroad to help address an unprecedented staff shortfall in Europe’s biggest economy.

The cabinet will approve draft legislation updating immigration rules for skilled workers on Wednesday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Monday in a speech in Berlin. While the employment trend has been positive, vacancies are “at an all-time high” and the government will therefore “look more at the qualifications and professional experience of immigrants and less at formalities,” he said.