Parents who spank their kids will be re-educated by the state, Poles are coming back from the US and we need foreign workers...
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The tide of Polish migration to the US is turning, writes GAZETA WYBORCZA. Even after many years in the US, residents of Polish districts, like Greenpoint in New York, are buying out one-way tickets to Poland and sending their property back home. At the same time, less and less Poles decide to travel to work in the States. Many Polish American businesses are suffering because of the shrinking of the Polish community. Smaller emigration from Poland to the US and the massive returns are caused by a combination of mainly economic factors, writes GAZETA WYBORCZA: the weakening of the US dollar, the strengthening of the Polish job market, higher chances for legal employment in the European Union, American immigration restrictions, and the general good condition of the Polish economy in the times of serious crisis in the United States.
Meantime back in Poland, people are less and less afraid of immigrants from other countries flooding the Polish job market. According to a poll published by DZIENNIK, nearly 2/3 of the respondents said they want the labor market to open to foreigners. Many of them wouldn't mind welcoming workers from Asia. Experts quoted by the DZIENNIK daily say this is because of the falling unemployment and the lack of specialists on the market. Twelve thousand foreigners are employed in Poland legally, as of now. Many more are unregistered, but this is still not enough, especially for the Polish construction industry, which is in serious need of specialists as well as simple manual workers. 'We must not count on Poles coming back from the British Isles. London needs employees just as much, especially because they will be organizing the Olympics in 2012. Only foreigners can save our job market,' one expert told the DZIENNIK daily.
Parents who spank their children may have their rights suspended, while they go through obligatory reeducation in a government controlled institution. This is how the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy plans to amend the current regulation aimed at protecting children from violence. RZECZPOSPOLITA daily looks into the project, acccording to which social workers will be granted the right to take a child out of the family home, if they suspect wrongdoing, without having to actually prove it. Parents accused of harming children will be removed from home immediately. 'Our Constitution says it is parents who raise the children. It's wrong, when the state tries to interfere with their role,' judge Wiesław Johann told RZECZPOSPOLITA daily.
German rescue services refused to continue the search for a Polish diver, who went missing during an expedition into the wreck of the "Jan Heweliusz" ferry, which sank in 1993. This is a scandal, writes the SUPER EXPRESS TABLOID. 42-year old Staszek broke the rules of the underwater expedition to the wreck, when he decided to enter the ferry. Then he went missing and is believed dead, trapped somewhere in the dangerous wreck. German rescue services said they would not continue searching for the man, who has no chance of survival anyway, unless the family pays for the recovery of the body. 'Until I see the body, I will go on believing he is alive,' the diver's wife and mother of his two children told the SUPER EXPRESS tabloid.