Dobrindt: Asylum seekers ought to be allowed to work quicker | EUROtoday

Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt needs to get asylum seekers into work extra rapidly. He instructed “Bild am Sonntag” that he had an “immediate plan in progress” drawn up. “Anyone who comes here should be able to work – and quickly.” The greatest integration is into the world of labor. “The goal is participation through activity,” stated the CSU politician.

According to the newspaper, asylum seekers ought to be allowed to work in Germany after three months of keep, even when their asylum process has not but been accomplished. But there ought to be no obligation to work.

According to Bild, a spokeswoman for Dobrindt stated: “The new rules do not change the process and outcome of the asylum procedure.” Whether somebody works or not has no affect on the ultimate determination about safety or rejection. The course of continues regardless. “Asylum seekers who have already been rejected and people who do not participate in the process, i.e. who conceal their identity or deceive people about their reasons for fleeing,” are expressly not allowed to profit.

Working asylum seekers are usually allowed to maintain their earnings, the spokeswoman stated, in keeping with “Bild”. “If they receive social benefits, their earnings are taken into account, for example for accommodation.”

The Federal Employment Agency describes in a leaflet how the scenario is presently regulated. With reference to the Asylum Act, it says: “Consent to work can be granted to people with toleration and asylum seekers if they have been legally resident in the federal territory for three months.”

However, so long as asylum seekers are obliged to reside within the reception facility, they aren’t allowed to work. “The waiting time can therefore be up to six months.”

However, asylum seekers from so-called protected nations of origin are obliged to reside within the reception middle for all the length of the asylum process. A basic employment ban applies to them.