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France unveiled, Thursday, its new list known as “trades in tension” allowing the sectors concerned to recruit foreign workers while regularizing their situation.
Among the “trades and geographic areas characterized by recruitment difficulties”, the updated list of which has been published in the Official Journal, include salaried farmers, home aid and household aid, kitchen aid, cooks, household employees and cleaning staff, market gardeners/employees, or even hotel and building employees.
Nurses, engineers, technicians, workers with different qualification degrees, are also identified among the 80 trades in lack of workforce on the list established region by region.
Provided for by French law relating to immigration, the list which is based on the criterion of “recruitment tension”, but also on that of “significant presence” of non -community foreign workers compared to the national average, aims to “support the implementation of the new legal framework, by reconciling immigration control and improvement of integration”, according to a press release from the French Ministry of Labor.
Cited in the press release, the Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and Families, Catherine Vautrin, said that “this new list of trades in tension makes it possible to respond to persistent recruitment difficulties, while promoting the integration of people already present in our territory”, specifying that it was built “from local realities of the labor market, in connection with the social partners, lack of labor ”.
“Long-awaited” by unions and businesses, the list takes into account the needs and recruitment difficulties encountered by the latter, underlined, for its part, the Minister responsible for Labor and Employment Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, assuring that her publication and her use “go hand in hand with the continuation of our efforts to fight against unemployment of foreigners in France and the filling of positions not provided by regular work, selective, regulated and in accordance with our national interests ”.
As a reminder, a first list of tension professions was established in 2021 and updated in March 2024.
The “Immigration” law of January 26, 2024 has created a new use of this list: it also becomes a tool for applying the new reason for exceptional admission to the stay (AES) allowing the prefectural issuance of a temporary residence permit for people in an irregular situation.
While the employment in France of a person in an irregular situation is, in principle, liable to 30,000 euros fine and five years’ imprisonment, this system should allow companies encountering difficulties in recruiting their employees and to rule out the risk of a conviction.
