Companies have filed over 1,500 requests for work permits for refugees this year following a ruling last year which said they can work more than 24 weeks, state jobs agency UWV has said in its annual report. Under the old rules, asylum seekers who have not been given residency permits are not allowed to work more than 24 weeks a year so they do not get the idea that their request for refugee status will be honoured. But in April Read this story
