Current Affairs Scheme to pay laid-off foreigners to leave sign of “panic”, says human rights lawyer

10-02-2009 16:14 | Ian Willoughby

With unemployment rising fast in the Czech Republic, it is often guest workers from states like Vietnam and Mongolia who are the first to be laid off – with redundancy meaning they immediately lose their legal status. Now the government has come out with a new scheme to give 2,000 unemployed foreigners a one-way ticket home, and a 500-euro payment.

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