The PS said the new agreement would cement matching Kenya’s talents to the German labor market, unlike the quota-based previous labour agreements.
Njogu said Kenya has a big, well-trained, and enterprising workforce that is supposed to contribute much to the global labor market.
This new agreement departs from the traditional quota-based bilateral labour agreements, focusing on setting up a framework to better match Kenyan talents with German labour market needs.
He said the PS added that the agreement will provide a framework of co-operation, and information sharing on labor mobility, apprenticeship, student training, labor market needs, employment and welfare of workers, readmission, and return.
She added that it also purportedly makes the immigration framework dynamic by bringing into correspondence the skills and talents of Kenyan professionals with the labor market needs of employers in Germany.
President William Ruto and his German counterpart, Olaf Scholz, have signed the agreement in Berlin on Friday, September 13.
The deal saw Germany agree to open its doors to skilled and semi-skilled Kenyan workers in a controlled and targeted labour migration deal.
Germany agreed to relax some of its immigration laws in order for Kenyans to get work in Europe’s largest economy.
The agreement will also ease the repatriation of Kenyans who are in Germany without legal documentation. About four million Kenyans live in the diaspora.
