Germany in search of craftsmen, 250,000 jobs

Due to a significant lack of labour force, leading leaders of the German economy seek to facilitate migration regulations. “We in Germany have major difficulty expanding enterprises, because simply where the workforce is missing”, the president of the company has indicated DIHK, German Chamber of Industry and Trade, Peter Adrian for the German news agency, dpa.

Peter Adrian

Even the secretary - general of the German Association of Secrets, Holger Schwannnecke, has stressed on the grounds that currently there are about 250,000 jobs at the branch of German craftsmen. “We need urgently for qualified powers. And we have to do this through further qualifications in the country and recruiting all internal potentials, but also through outside labor force delivery.” That's how little it takes.

Header DYHK, Adrian has criticised the obstacles the qualified forces from abroad face. The necessary “is a packaged procedure of consulates and representatives abroad. This fails at the moment simply from administration structures”, Adrian said. Schwannecke also criticises the long procedures for visa giving, “consulates are overloaded”. Many things are still done by hand, not in digital form, and it's not productive, that still “we don't have a welcome culture for the qualified workforce”.

Peter Adrian relates a case of how his venture with the help of the Foreign Trade Chamber took a worker from Morocco. This lasted 10 months. And everyone even wished it was so fast. There are cases where procedures last two or three years. This is related not only to procedures that are no longer timely but also to the local authorities' stance.” Very often, concepts of service and service delivery are unknown, Adrian criticised. /DW