Published on 22 April and entitled “Talent Shortage Survey 2008: Global results,” the study compares the situation in 32 countries from the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Vietnamese, Moldovans and Sri Lankans are most numerous. Faced with a growing labour shortage which threatens their economies, Romania and Hungary are courting Asian workers, going against Hungarian nationalist Prime It finds that in Romania, as many as 73% of employers say they have difficulties in filling available positions, compared to 12% in the UK, 18% in Italy, 26% in Belgium, 31% in France, 34% in Germany, 47% in Greece and 49% in Poland. "When they have travelled thousands of miles to find a job, it is obvious that they will obey without flinching and work unpaid overtime for fear of being sent back to their country," says Costin, who heads SNB, one of the country's main trade union confederations.Across the border in Hungary, trade unionists make the same accusations.Employers "exploit the language barriers by faking even their working papers", says Pallagi, the head of the construction workers' union.Zoltan Laszlo, head of the Metallurgical Trade Union, says Hungarian employees likewise are under pressure from their bosses who tell them they are "easily replaceable" by Ukrainians, Mongolians or Vietnamese.Mihaela RODINA and Ionut IORDACHESCU with Peter MURPHY in BudapestBucharest was forced to recruit far beyond EU borders for workers, a local mayor says (AFP Photo/Adrian Catu)Kvyat set for five-place grid penalty for British GPIncredible $49 Smartwatch is Taking Australia By StormRacing Point has no issues with Perez’s Mexican tripFlavours of ice cream maker, 87, makes Hungarians nostalgicStaples customer who told woman to wear mask is thrown to ground, has broken legTrump says fed agents to stay in Portland until police 'cleanup'Companies in New South Wales Have Discovered Fleet TrackersYouTuber offers $100,000 to the first person to solve his riddle: ‘Insanely hard’'We call them jump-out boys': Videos of protesters getting picked up by unmarked police cars spark outrage, but many say it's not newTrump says he doesn’t 'think' Herman Cain caught coronavirus at the Tulsa rallyTrump says he thinks Russian bounty allegations are 'another Russia hoax' AP Analysis: Why Trump's election delay tweet mattersPHOTOS: John Lewis – congressman and civil rights activist – a life of extraordinary serviceTrump says he'll act to ban TikTok in US as soon as SaturdayKim Kardashian reportedly 'torn' over divorcing Kanye West after 'emotional' reunionSuri Cruise Is Trending in Thong Sandals & Slouchy-Chic Sweats For a Dog WalkRepublicans attack Fauci and defend Trump at coronavirus hearingFlorida and Mississippi report record increases in COVID-19 deaths
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Economic growth was also accompanied by a chronic labour shortage, which was estimated at 300,000 employees in KPMG and National Employers’ Confederation Concordia’s ‘Quantitative and qualitative analysis of the labour market in Romania’. Sporting yellow safety helmets, about 30 men are busy at work on a construction site south of Bucharest, exchanging a few words in Vietnamese. However two million of the 22 million Romanians already work abroad for much higher wages. For other continents the figures range from 12% in India to 22% for the USA, or 28% for Mexico and 38% for South Africa. While in most Western countries the greatest demand is for skilled manual trades and technicians, for Romania the highest demand is for engineers.
They also admitted they did not consider training unemployed Romanians to be a solution either, arguing that once they had learned a profession, they would leave the country to work abroad for a higher salary.
The effects of the Romanian authorities’ effort to find a solution to the manpower shortage have been felt as far away as Pakistan, where the press has recently highlighted the job opportunities. Many are hired by recruitment companies which specialise in Asian labour, whose number has exploded. Representatives of Romanian businesses said that bringing workers from neighbouring countries such as Moldova and Ukraine is no longer a solution. Workers from the Third World countries will be paid some 200 dollars per month plus meal vouchers, which according to the Romanian press is ten times more than their income back home. We are more confident than ever in our role bridging media, policy, and the public.
Romania issued more than 11,000 work permits in the first half of the year, already more than the 10,500 granted for the whole of 2018 to fill the shortage left by four million of its own citizens emigrating north to look for better paying jobs.