Azerbaijan to provide work permits to foreign specialists

Azerbaijan's Ministry of Labour and Social Protection has developed and submitted to the relevant governmental agencies the amendments to migration legislation to improve labour migration processes, the Labour and Social Protection Minister Salim Muslimov said.

"The amendments envisage the improvement of migration quota in order to prevent participation of unskilled foreign personnel in the market and the effectiveness of drawing of the local workforce, as well as development and application of the mechanism of granting work permits to qualified foreign specialists," abc.az cited the minister as saying.