Yle: Juha Sipilä Yle Newsille: Työperäistä maahanmuuttoa helpotettava

Yle: Juha Sipilä Yle Newsille: Työperäistä maahanmuuttoa helpotettava 1.4.2015
Yle News: Centre’s Sipilä liberal on work-based immigration, on-the-job English

Keskusta on valmis helpottamaan maahanmuuttajien kielivaatimuksia, kertoo puolueen puheenjohtaja Juha Sipilä Yleisradion englanninkielisille uutisille Yle Newsille. Sipilän mielestä Suomen pitäisi sallia englanti työkielenä siihen sopivissa töissä.

Haastattelussa Sipilä painottaa Keskustan kannattavan maahanmuuttoa, etenkin työperäistä sellaista. Sipilän mukaan toimivan kotouttamisohjelman kehittäminen on avainasemassa asiantuntijoiden houkuttelemisessa Suomeen. Tämä ohjelma pitää sisällään myös suomen kielen opetuksen.

Sipilä ei paljasta Yle Newsille mieluisimpia hallituskumppaneita. Hän ei myöskään kommentoi mahdollisia ministerivalintoja.

– Pidetään ensin vaalit, Sipilä toteaa.

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Yle News: Centre’s Sipilä liberal on work-based immigration, on-the-job English

If the latest opinion polls are to be believed, Juha Sipilä and his Centre Party may well be in the position of leading government formation talks once the general election is over in April.

Yle News met up with the prime minister-apparent as he pressed the flesh among voters in the southwest city of Salo for a pre-election interview. Sipilä stressed that his party is strongly pro-immigration, particularly work-based immigration. He said that the Centre already has put together proposals to make work-based migration more liberal.

"In starter companies we have been asked to have more specialists from outside of EU countries and there are some limitations on this. We want to be more liberal in those cases – especially when we talk about specialists," Sipilä explained.

Sipilä said that the key to attracting – and keeping – such specialist talent in Finland would be to develop solid integration programmes, including Finnish language training.

The Centre chair pointed to his own background as a businessman, noting that his companies recruited employees from outside of Finland – but Finnish language skills were not a requirement for the job. He observed that other employers could follow suit.

"I think that we can have more freedom in accepting that if there are English skills in people. I think that in Finland nowadays we can manage also with the English skills," he remarked.

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