Special help for ethnic job seekers

[Frans_Jozef]

Special help for ethnic job seekers


The Flemish Employment and Vocational Training Service (VDAB) is to set up a special vacancy database for job seekers from the ethnic minorities and the handicapped. The daily 'De Standaard' reports that the primary aim of the new database is to increase the number of Flemings of foreign descent in public service jobs.

The Flemish Employment and Vocational Training Service hopes that the new database will serve to offer greater employment opportunities to groups in society that are unrepresented in the workforce.

Ingrid Pelssers of the Flemish Emancipation Affairs Service told the paper that "we want to take them on, but we can't find them. A database could offer a solution to a genuine problem".
The VDAB will have to await the green light from the Belgian Data Protection Commission before it can go ahead with the new database.

However, the service's boss Fons Leroy doesn't expect this to pose any problems.

"The database will make it easier for us to attain the figures set out in our management agreement. The Government obliges us to help a certain number of people from the ethnic minorities, handicapped people and older job seekers to find work."

Some 40,000 people currently work in the Flemish public services.

The Flemish Government has set a target of 4.5% of employees who are to be either handicapped or from the ethnic minorities by 2010.

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[Willow]

And i thought Holland was only a small country....:runaway

Up to 30,000 asylum seekers will be allowed to stay in the Netherlands after the Dutch government announced an amnesty.:runaway

The pardon will apply to those who sought asylum in the Netherlands before April 2001, many of whom have been in the country for years appealing against expulsion.

An estimated 25,000 to 30,000 people who arrived in the country before immigration laws were tightened will qualify, junior justice and labour minister Nebat Albayrak told a press conference.

"The pardon means an end to the uncertainty, which lasted for many years and was way too long," she said.

Procedures are now quicker, and failed applicants will be deported faster, she said.

The pardon was agreed in principle in February as part of the coalition agreement of Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's centrist government.

It marked an easing of policy in a country which has imposed some of Europe's toughest migration and integration laws since the rise of anti-immigration populist Pim Fortuyn, who was shot dead in 2002.

Balkenende's previous centre-right coalition with the liberal VVD, which included hard-line Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk, had opposed the pardon and said an amnesty could prompt a huge influx of asylum-seekers.

Balkenende reversed his position when he had to forge a coalition with the Labour Party and a small Protestant party, the Christian Union, after a parliamentary election in November.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Dut...601737985.html

[Gorm the Old]

Now, will these asylum-seekers be grateful to the Netherlands for taking them in or will they try to force their own customs and laws on their benefactors ? Perhaps, if they are not Muslims, they will have the decency to show some gratitude for the kindness which they have been shown. It will be interesting to watch the outcome of this amnesty.

[Aragorn]

I have one word for it: welcome to the Netherlands: :thumbsdow

This will only attrack more and more foreigners.

[klokkwerx]

This is a sad fact for Europe, Holland will suffer the most trying to preserving its Blood and Heritage, this land is just to small to assorb this.
Ireland is suffering the same fate too!
What can we do?

[Alizon Device]

Those cretinous, spineless Dutch politicians who approved this disastrous policy will live to regret it.

They have just shot Holland up to the number one target country for asylum seekers and non-European migrants in general.

The theory is this: if the Dutch have one amnesty, then they could have another one. And another one after that.

This theory is the only reason why the British Government have so far resisted calls from the liberals and the left to introduce a similar 'amnesty'.
But the calls are growing stronger...

[ladybright]

Look at what we did in 1986 when we pardoned three million illegal immigrants. Now we have twelve million or more dependinging on who you are getting your numbers from. The Dutch people have my sympathy for they live in truely trying times and it seems that the politicians wear blinders.

I hope England holds strong on this issue.

[SmokyGod]

yeah, if the Revolution turns into a racialist free-for-all i'm gonna be some kind of fucking pissed.

Immigrants who don't assimilate make me angry, minorities who force us to "accept' their culture at the expense of ours make me angry, the fact that a race war might break out makes be scared as fuck. I don't want to see America turn into the Gaza fucking Strip. I don't really care about race or culture as a litmus test for my friends: if you respect my civil liberties i'll respect yours, but i will NOT substitute my culture for yours because you used to be "oppressed".