Protesters carry national flags of Germany and the ultra far-right party Freie Sachsen (Free Saxony) during a demonstration in Chemnitz, Germany, March 18, 2024. REUTERS/Matthias Rietschel/File Photo
CHEMNITZ, Germany (Reuters) - Manager Joerg Engelmann says he has pulled out all the stops to attract skilled foreign workers to his chemical engineering company in Chemnitz, east Germany. But once they arrived, the racial slurs and exclusion they experienced in the town have driven some of them away.
His firm is one of five German medium-sized companies that told Reuters their foreign staff recently moved on or switched locations due to xenophobia, even as Europe's biggest economy suffers a shortage of skilled labour.
