Labour market integration in Stuttgart Gari Pavkovic Commissioner

Labour market integration in Stuttgart Gari Pavkovic, Commissioner for Integration, City of Stuttgart 12 th October 2016, Brussels Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart Folie

Integration Policy on Local Level in Germany Ø Implementation of federal and state legal regulations (mandatory tasks) Ø Own measures for integration and participation of migrants and refugees (voluntary tasks) Ø Coordination of various EU, federal, regional, local level, and civil society programmes on the spot i. e. Stuttgart Pact for Integration Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart Folie 2

Integration of migrants into the labour market Target groups Ø Ø Migrants from EU countries Labour migrants from third countries International students Refugees Challenge: There are different legal regulations for individual target groups into the labour market Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart Folie 3

Integration of refugees into the labour market Ø Asylum seekers are allowed to work after 3 months of stay (under certain conditions) → Job hunting via job agency Ø Recognized refugees are allowed to work without limitations and become selfemployed → Job hunting via local job center Challenge: Insufficient language skills to access the labour market Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart Folie 4

Labour integration of migrants in Stuttgart Ø Welcome Center Stuttgart as main service and contact point for newcomers (onestop-shop) Ø Support by volunteer apprenticeship mentors and job mentors from civil society, in particular for refugees Ø Local German courses for refugees, federal integration courses - partly combined with non-profit work, intership etc. Additionally: Vocational counseling and training camps for migrants and refugees under one roof Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart Folie 5

What‘s next? Ø Better personal counseling for asylumseekers on access to the labour market in the first 12 months Ø Training and involvement of refugees as mentors and bridge-builders to the labour market (self-empowerment) Ø Combination of language aquisition and vocational measures (internship, first job) from the beginning on Ø Reinforcement of interpreting services (Jobcenter Stuttgart: telephone interpreting) Ø Apprenticeship and recruitment of recognized refugees as interpreters and integration pilots, in particular persons with educational qualifications and intercultural competences (we have sufficient postdoc taxi drivers!) THANK YOU. Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart Folie 6