Permits Foundation has conducted the first global survey to look specifically at the employment aspirations of expatriate spouses and partners of highly skilled international staff. More than 3300 spouses and partners took part, representing more than 100 nationalities in as many host countries. They accompanied highly skilled staff working for more than 200 employers in […]

Permits Foundation applauds the French government’s implementation of measures allowing spouses and family members of skilled international staff to work during the course of an assignment. The changes, which apply to the family members of intra-group transferees and persons with a residence and work permit for ‘competences and talents’, were prescribed by the immigration and […]

France is the latest country to improve its regulations to allow spouses and family members to work freely during an expatriate assignment. A new law n° 2006-911 on immigration and integration (of persons from outside the European Union) was passed on 24 July 2006, subject to further decrees before implementation. Among other things, this law […]

Fifty representatives of international employers, government ministries and diplomatic missions met recently at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London to discuss access to employment of spouses and partners during an expatriate assignment. Delegates from several ‘best practice’ countries confirmed that allowing spouses and partners to work was an integral part of their policy […]

The European Commission’s final report on the Implementation of its Action Plan for Skills and Mobility recognised the difficulty of finding employment for partners or spouses of mobile workers as a major obstacle to occupational and geographic mobility in Europe. Read more in COM(2007) 24 final, 25.1.2007, Section 4 Challenges Ahead