“It is getting very difficult to find qualified people,” says Mr. Traublinger, whose family company employs 150 people besides Mr. Henares. “Unemployment is so low – there just aren’t the qualified people on the market. Everyone wants to hold on to the people they have.”
Even amid the euro zone debt crisis, German employers say their Fachkraeftemangel – shortage of skilled labour – is one of their biggest problems as they grapple with the changes that an aging and shrinking population is bringing to the work force.
A recent study from the Robert Bosch foundation suggested the work force could shrink by about six million, or some 12 per cent, by 2030 without remedial action. In Munich’s underground network, ads proliferate for training schemes in fields such as engineering, with employers seeking the next generation of workers to keep the German economy humming.
Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor
via Germany turns to its neighbours to ease labour shortage – The Globe and Mail.
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