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The Prime Minister agrees that the procedures for hiring highly skilled workers could be simpler, but there is no point in facilitating the process of hiring people with lower wages for unskilled jobs.
“When we talk about people who are paid ‘more modestly’ for their work, this import is not impossible or non-existent. There are quotas, there are processes, but for some reason they want those processes to be simplified to zero,” said I. Šimonytė on radio Žinių.
According to the Prime Minister, by simplifying the procedures for bringing low-skilled workers to Lithuania, employers will be able to attract cheap labor, but this will not encourage Lithuanians to stay in the country.
“We must avoid a process where our people go to the West to do the same jobs for a higher salary because employers here can still find people who come and work for a cheaper price. This is not what we seek in our economic transformation. We are fighting for greater added value, higher wages, higher income and greater prosperity, ”said the Head of Government.
Allowing employers to bring in those who agree to work for lower wages will not provide much incentive for the Lithuanian economy, because instead of investing in employees’ work skills and technologies, employers would choose to hire more low-wage people to work in more primitive areas. conditions, notes the Prime Minister.
Instead of calling employees lazy due to low productivity, she says, employers should pay more attention to raising their skills and improving working conditions.
“People are not lazy, people work a lot for hours. The product creates little. Why? Here the answer is also on the employers’ side: investment, technology, processes. On the side where, however, there are employers ”, Says I. Šimonytė.
