Estonia doubles foreign worker quota

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Estonia doubles foreign worker quota

Jun 20, 2007
By Joel Alas

Parts hopes trimming bureaucracy will create access to skilled labor.

TALLINN - The process of bringing foreign workers to Estonia is to be streamlined under a plan to ease the country’s worker shortage. The quota of foreign workers will be doubled to about 1,300 and the bureaucratic paperwork slashed by November under an Economy Ministry proposal. Economy Minister Juhan Parts said the bureaucratic simplifications were an obvious solution to give companies faster access to skilled labor. Employers have welcomed the proposals, but said they did not go far ...

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