This text has been automatically translated, it may contain errors or inaccuracies.
COMPETENCES
Favorite
Remove from my list

The Basque Government takes over the management of foreign work permits

From this Tuesday, the Basque Country will be managing new competences related to the work permits of migrants, with the aim of facilitating integration and speeding up administrative procedures.

GRAFCAV9429. , 30/06/2025.- Un empleado en una frutería coloca coloca el género en la calle durante su horario laboral este lunes en Vitoria en una jornada en la que el consejero de Economía, Trabajo y Empleo, Mikel Torres, comparece en el Parlamento Vasco para para presentar el informe de Siniestralidad 2024 y la evaluación de la estrategia vasca de Seguridad y Salud en el trabajo 2021-2026. EFE/Adrián Ruiz-Hierro

A grocery store worker putting gender on the street.

From 1 July, the Basque Government will manage a number ofissues relating to work permits for foreigners residing or working in the Basque Country , a new transfer of powers agreed with the Spanish Government, which will enable the Government to process such permits, including seasonal recruitment.

In addition to the individual efforts, theBasque Government will also assume the coordination of collective recruitment at source  in all matters relating to labour procedures, inter alia, by verifying whether the contracts meet the requirements for social and labour roots and whether the training received by migrants serves to demand social and training.

The regulations governing such authorisations shall remain the competence of the State, which shall continue to establish general criteria and manage relations with the countries of origin in the case of collective procurement.

The transfer will also involve the transfer to the Basque Country of four vacant posts in the State administration: two in Bizkaia, one in Gipuzkoa and one in Álava.

According to Eustat data, in 2024 there were 217,489 foreigners living in the Basque Country, or 9.9% of the total population, 14.7% of whom were unemployed. Although more than 5,000 people have been trained through Lanbide, many of them have not been able to enter the labour market due to lack of documentation.

The Basque Government stresses that this new competence will makeit possible to complete reception routes, facilitate the social and employment integration of migrants and speed up residence permits.

You might like

18:00 - 20:00
LIVE
From  min.

Denis Itxaso: "Among the conditions for turning premises into housing, we will eliminate the condition of having two facades, among others."

The new decree that the Basque Government will adopt on Tuesday in the Governing Council will involve the implementation of a wide range of housing policy measures, developing the general lines announced in recent months. Among the measures, the conditions for converting premises into housing will be made more flexible, which will allow, according to the Government's estimates, about 7,500 premises to change their use inthe Basque Country.

18:00 - 20:00
LIVE
From  min.

The City Council of Vitoria-Gasteiz will examine whether Korrika meets the eligibility requirements for grants

On the occasion of the exhibition of photos of ETA prisoners in the race for the Euskera, the People's Party has today called for the suspension of public funding by motion, which has been rejected by the City Council, although Socialist Councilwoman Maria Nanclares has announced that they will study the case to see if it complies with the municipal ordinance.

18:00 - 20:00
LIVE
From  min.

Pradales has accused EH Bildu of not supporting "country agreements," and has urged him to "get wet."

The lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, has reproached EH Bildu for not having supported a single major "country" agreement in these two years of legislature and has asked him to "get wet" . Otxandiano, for his part, has warned that the "disagreements" between the two parties, partners in the Basque Government, on issues such as the Euskera, are "an obstacle" to progress.

Load more