Polish companies look to hire from the east
PR dla Zagranicy
Alicja Baczyńska
18.12.2015 16:31
Polish companies feel a shortage of labour on construction sites and have been forced to look to Ukraine and Belarus for workers, a construction company boss has said.
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Around one in four Polish construction workers looking for higher earnings have emigrated to Western Europe, leaving over 100,000 positions in the building sector unoccupied, Dariusz Blocher, the president of Polish construction company Budimex, said.
“A culmination of projects co-financed by the European Commission will occur in 2017-2019, [and by that time] the personnel shortage could be as high as tens of thousands,” Blocher added.
In Blocher’s opinion, companies will need to meet with government officials at the beginning of next year over difficulties regarding the hire of non-nationals.
Currently, companies must help prospective hires obtain visas, complete formalities and bear the cost of work permits. (ua/pk)
Source: Puls Biznesu