EU supports Canaries’ priority for local workers
Update 9 March 2013: President Rivero has called on businesses to “employ residents”, as the crisis deepens. He reproached businesses for contracting employees “from abroad”. Now hang on a minute, Mr President. There are plenty of “residents” here who originated “abroad”. If you intend to say “only employ Canarians and let foreigners go hang”, please have the goodness to say it straight.
Original post 8 July 2012: The EU has ruled that the Canarian Government may give priority to Canarian resident workers without it being considered discriminatory. The minister for Economía, Hacienda y Seguridad, Javier González Ortiz, has said the decision is “very positive” and that the high rate of unemployment in the islands is not just a consequence of the loss of jobs, but of the large number of foreign workers seeking employment here.
Sr González Ortiz added that the weakness of the local job market and the high impact of the economic crisis here were aspects of the case that the EU took on board when deciding that the Canarian Government’s priority of local workers did not breach EU treatises. This consideration has also been incorporated into the recent EU report on the new strategy for ultraperipheral regions for 2014-2020.
We were in London recently, staying at a Good hotel and I can’t tell you the number of Spanish staff we came across, both in the hotel and in bars and restaurants………can’t have it all ways……there are loads of young people from the Spanish mainland employed in London……..