Something promised, something due
.
“The government is meeting its commitments,”
said Marc Fesneau on X this morning. The Minister of Agriculture thus highlights the publication in the Official Journal this Saturday of a decree updating the list of professions in tension to compensate for the lack of agricultural labor.
From now on, four professional families are considered as such throughout the metropolitan territory: employed farmers, employed breeders, employed market gardeners and horticulturists, employed wine growers and arboriculturists.
The recruitment of seasonal workers is therefore made easier.
This recognition of a profession in tension is a boost for employers in these agricultural branches.
It allows
“the issuance, without opposition of the employment situation, of work authorizations to foreigners who are not nationals of a Member State of the European Union, of another State party to the European Economic Area or of the Swiss Confederation”
, explains the decree.
Clearly, companies in the agricultural sector will be able to recruit workers from outside the European Union as they wish.
However, workers must always hold a valid visa.
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Recognition of professions in tension was previously done region by region, taking into account the particularity and needs of each territory.
A mode of operation that can create unequal situations.
Faced with the anger of farmers, the executive was forced to let go by simplifying the normative mille-feuille.
This measure was mentioned at the end of February by Gabriel Attal.
Faced with recruitment tensions, the Prime Minister announced that a decree recognizing agricultural production as a
“sector in tension”
would be published during the Agricultural Show, in order to
“greatly facilitate the allocation of visas”.