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What is the change? Ireland’s Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation has added several occupations to the list of high-skilled jobs available to foreign workers and removed other occupations from the list of jobs ineligible to foreign workers.
What does the change mean? Irish employers may now apply for employment permits for foreign employees in the specified occupations listed below.
The following occupations have been added to the Highly Skilled Eligible Occupations List:
In addition, an explicit reference to “analytical development” has been added to the job list under the Standard Occupation Code 211 Natural and Science Professionals category.
The following occupations have been removed from the Ineligible Categories of Employment List, thus making them available to foreign workers:
BAL Analysis: Employers seeking to fill jobs in the above occupations may sponsor foreign workers for employment permits.
This alert has been provided by the BAL Global Practice group in the United Kingdom. For additional information, please contact uk@bal.com.
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