A total of 7,130 foreigners were granted a permit to work in Malta between January and August this year, Social Policy Minister John Dalli has said in Parliament.
Replying to a parliamentary question, the minister gave a four-page list of jobs which the foreigners were allowed to perform.
Among them are accountancy, engineering, architects and planners, an author, a baker, blacksmith and hammer-smith, bookmaker and croupier, building finishers and related trades, building structure cleaners, butchers, fishmonger assistant, carpenter, joiner, cashiers and related clerks, chemist, cleaner and domestic helpers, IT professionals, cooks, designers, a disc jockey, a salvage diver, drivers:
Fishery workers, hunters and trappers, a hairdresser's assistant, kitchen hand, labourers, machine operators, masseur, doctor and medical equipment operators, nail technician, nanny;
Nurses, panel beater painter, restorer, musician, pawnbrokers and money-lenders, pharmacist, pipe fitter, plumber, quality controller, research analyst, sales persons ships' crews, ship and aircraft controllers, sprayer assistant, , stonemasons, swimming pool attendant, tile layer and a welder.
The minister did not say if some of the permits had been granted to migrants granted protection in Malta.