Integration monitor is a daily Latvian press digest on ethnic minority and society integration issues. The Monitor reviews the biggest Latvian dailies: Diena, Latvijas Avize, Neatkariga (in Latvian language), Vesti Segodnya (in Russian language). In specific cases other information sources are used. Latvian Centre for Human Rights is not responsible for information published by the media.

• Latvijas Avize discusses the necessity to involve guest workers in Latvian labour market

Latvijas Avize reports on the call of the Employers Confederation of Latvia to launch a campaign on the popularisation of Latvian labour market in other EU states due to the shortage of domestic labour force. According to the information of the State Employment Agency (SEA), during the first seven months of this year the number of guest workers employed in Latvia has increased approximately four times in comparison with the same period last year. Statistics shows that 1370 work invitations have been approved by the SEA to citizens of third countries this year. Most of them are coming from the Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Russia, Armenia and Turkey.