CAPTION: German government wants to attract skilled workers at home and abroad. (picture alliance/dpa/dpa-Zentralbild)
The German government wants to combat the shortage of skilled workers in Germany by increasing the number of apprenticeships, expanding continuing education, and attracting qualified workers. The skilled labor strategy adopted by the federal cabinet also aims to increase the participation of women in the workforce. Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil told dpa: "Securing skilled workers is a vital issue for our country, for our prosperity, and thus also for social cohesion."
According to a statement, Economics Minister Robert Habeck said, "The pressure to act is high. Our economy urgently needs more skilled workers." Together with the social partners, the government has relaunched the skilled labor strategy to attract more skilled workers at home and abroad, Heil said. To make it easier for more qualified skilled workers from abroad to join companies and businesses in Germany, he said, the ruling coalition government will present key points for a modern immigration law in the fall.
Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger said, "At almost two million, there are more jobs to be filled in Germany than ever before." Stark-Watzinger described a "vocational training excellence initiative" as an "essential component." The minister emphasized that young people should be able to better prepare for vocational training. High schools should be more involved in career guidance. This should be done in a way that is "open to educational pathways" - i.e., it should not just regard universities as the next step after school. Both academic and vocational education could be "great stepping stones" into working life, she said.
The government considers the transformation processes of digitalization, demographic change, and decarbonization, i.e., the exit from fossil fuels, to be among the increased challenges when it comes to securing skilled labor. This is changing Germany as a business location with increasing momentum, it says. "Added to this are the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic consequences of the war in Ukraine, and also the increasingly necessary adjustments to the advancing climate change."
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