The government has passed a law allowing 500,000 non-EU foreign workers to arrive in Italy over the next three years. These are mainly domestic helpers and caregivers, agricultural laborers and factory workers, waiters, nurses, logistics workers, and skilled technicians for mechanics and telecommunications. Fast tracks are planned for workers with high professional qualifications starting with the profiles most in demand by companies and enhancing the training of workers directly in their countries of origin. According to Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida, the measure “facilitates businesses and integration, ending the pre-existing chaos”. An average of 165,850 entries per year are expected, including seasonal and non-seasonal workers. All labor that is “otherwise unavailable”, the government points out. The goal is to make sure that citizens of non-EU countries who want to work in Italy can do so easily, as well as legally. Not least because between declining birth rates and jobs that Italians want to do less and less, companies' unmet demand for labor in key sectors of the economy is high.