Germany’s biggest companies hire JUST 54 of country’s recently arrived million migrants
JUST 54 refugees have been hired by Germany’s biggest companies despite more than ONE MILLION refugees arriving in the country last year.
Just 54 of Germany's recently arrived refugees have been hired by the country's biggest companies
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is urging big business to hire more refugees as her government makes integrating migrants a priority.
A survey by newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine found the top 30 German companies had employed just 54 refugees.
50 refugees were hired by just one company the courier firm Deutsche Post.
The top 30 German companies employed just 54 refugees
More than one million migrants arrived in Germany last year, with a third of them refugees from Syria.
The German Chancellor has now invited executives from Germany’s biggest listed companies to attend a summit next month where she will urge them to hire more refugees, according to German newspaper Bild.
Merkel’s government wants to get as many migrants as possible into the job market to reduce their dependence on the state and to compensate for labour shortages.
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There were 665,000 vaccines in the German jobs market in June.
Merkel will push the companies to offer more traineeships and and positions to refugees at the summit in September.
Companies have come under fire for not taking on refugees and have said most of the new arrivals lack the necessary language skills and education.
More than one million migrants arrived in Germany last year
Angela Merkel is urging companies to hire more refugees
Engineering giant Siemens, chemicals group Evonik, carmakers Opel and VW and utility RWE will share with Merkel the results of pilot projects with refugees, Bild said.
Merkel's office declined to confirm Bild's report.
Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel last month urged large companies to do more for refugees, saying their efforts pale in comparison to the Mittelstand, the small and medium-size companies considered the backbone of Europe's biggest economy.
50 refugees were hired by just one company the courier firm Deutsche Post
Merkel has increasingly come under fire for her immigration policies which have seen around 16,000 refugees arrive in Germany every month.
She has faced a backlash and seen her popularity among voters dip with many blaming her open door refugee policy for a spate of terror attacks in Germany.
Germany has been hit by four separate attacks in recent weeks, including when an axe-wielding Afghan refugee attacked passengers on a train near Wurzburg and a Syrian refugee carried out a suicide bombing at a music festival near Ansbach.
The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees estimates that another 200,000 people will apply for asylum in 2017.