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17 Dec 2018

Germany: Migrant & refugee workers are an enrichment for economy, says business chief

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Many among the more than one million people who arrived in Germany as migrants or refugees since 2015 are integrating speedily through work, the head of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), a key business group, said, urging others to see migration not as a threat but an enrichment. Meanwhile, the German Insitute for Human Rights highlighted in its third annual report this month that foreign workers are often underpaid, hired without formal contracts or pushed to work overtime with no pay.