Regularization of foreign workers: a list of professions in demand full of aberrations bearing the mark of Bruno Retailleau

The long-awaited new list of occupations in demand was published in the Official Journal on Thursday, May 22. Officially intended to facilitate the regulation of undocumented workers, its publication was delayed several times, notably by Bruno Retailleau , who did not want this issue to "interfere" with his internal campaign for the election to the presidency of the Republicans. Condemned by the unions, this list responds, according to them, more to the political and ideological choices of the Minister of the Interior than to the realities of the labor market and the needs of workers.

Scheduled by the January 2024 immigration law and expected to be updated annually, the list of occupations in shortage, which lists the sectors in which the number of job offers is higher than that of...