Germany is looking for workers: As many as 558,000 jobs are currently free

In March, the number of incomplete jobs for which employers are unable to find an adequate workforce increased by 88,000 and now stands at a record 558,000,” said the German Economic Institute, which cites its research.

The lack of qualified workers, according to the survey, affects all sectors of the labour market, but is especially pronounced in the field of health, social welfare, education and construction.

“Only in health, social care and education sectors, six out of ten jobs have not been completed due to the lack of adequate workforce,” said IW in a statement.

In the years of the 2020 and 2021 pandemic, the flow of the foreign - qualified workforce slowed, but the trend of increasing the number of jobs incomplete began much earlier. One of the reasons is the attraction of the numbery strong generation by the mid - 50s.

The federal government's information was published Saturday, under which the number of pensioners, respectively, who have grown 67 and who are still active in the labour market, is on the rise in recent years.

Last year, 1.05 million people over 67 were in a form of employment, a significant increase compared to 2010, when only 685,000 pensioners would continue working in addition to retirement.

In part, this phenomenon is related to a lack of professionals, so employers turn many qualified workers into their old retirement jobs.

In addition to increased import of experts from European Union countries, Germany has facilitated the process of obtaining work permits and staying for residents of countries outside the EU. So since 2016 a programme for employment of workers from the Western Balkans, which enables migration to the German labour market, is in force.

Shortly after the start of the war in Ukraine, employers and trade unions sought by authorities to remove bureaucratic barriers so as to integrate refugees from Ukraine into the German labour market as soon as possible.