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15 Jul 2016

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Financial Times

Survey reveals Germany’s top companies employ just 54 refugees

...survey by the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper of the top 30 German companies found that they had together employed just 54 refugees...Sigmar Gabriel, economics minister and leader of the centre-left Social Democrats, said the smaller enterprises that make up Germany’s Mittelstand had been building bridges to enable refugees to enter the labour market. “But without the flagships of the German economy, without you, the bridge is not yet complete,” he wrote. “Show that the biggest companies in this country are not only the best at revenues and profits … but also when it comes to integrating [refugees].” A spokesman for Bayer, the German pharmaceuticals group, said that while refugees were motivated and willing to learn, “they come from countries with educational systems where science is barely taught, and that’s what you need for a job at Bayer.” He said the company had so far not employed a single refugee. When the migrant crisis reached its height last year, Germany’s bosses were initially optimistic about the newcomers’ chances. Dieter Zetsche, chief executive of Daimler, the carmaker, said at the time that they could lay the foundation for the “next German economic miracle”...