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The Employment Service ensures that there is currently a shortage of qualified personnel: engineers, installers, drivers, nurses. It is true that staff shortages are also being felt in the post-quarantine services sector.
There are more than two hundred thousand unemployed and there is still a labor shortage in Lithuania. A recent study showed that over the next three years, companies in the Siauliai region alone will lack more than 4,000 highly-skilled employees and managers.
The Šiauliai furniture manufacturing company is preparing to expand and is looking for up to 200 employees. Not only highly skilled professionals, but also ordinary workers. According to the director of the company, the workers must be transported from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
“The biggest problem is that the state pays benefits, then workers can afford not to work and, of course, the issue of wages. We are ready to respond to this and increase our salary ”, says Ovidijus Jalonskis, director of Vilmers.
Airid, who works at a furniture manufacturing company, says he is motivated not only by the salary, but also by the good atmosphere.
“I was looking for a job that I would like, I saw an ad, I called. We talked about the conversation, we showed everything, we liked it, we tried it one day and we have been working for a month,” he says.
And entrepreneurs do not express the words in watts. At the end of the quarantine, they would like to hit the gas pedal all the way and employ as many people as possible. It is true, you cannot find those who can and want to work.
According to the Employment Service, the number of vacancies increased to 60,000 in June. And that’s the greatest need for staff in the last thirty years. Although more than a few hundred thousand unemployed registered with the Employment Service in early July, employers do not invite them.
“The labor market needs qualified workers. And this trend has been going on for several years. These are the majority of the unemployed made up of unskilled people. Or people whose qualifications do not meet the requirements of the current labor market,” explains Inga Balnanosienė, director of the Employment Service.
Currently, all engineering professions are in demand, there is a lack of production operators, installers, as well as doctors and nurses. The transport sector is also actively looking for employees.
“The trends are such that there are currently registered jobs that need workers not only now, but also in the near future. And once the quarantine is over, the catering sector will resume its activities and the activity of the offers in these sectors will grow ”, he continues.
Not only that, hotel and restaurant owners feel understaffed. Entrepreneur Zigmantas Dargevičius fears that for some time he has been unable to find chefs, housekeepers and managers. According to Dargevičius, the 1000 euro salary does not attract employees.
“The situation of the workforce is critical, I would say terrible because there is a shortage of people everywhere. Those who have been down for more than a year are now making statements, people are not oriented when they come and are surprised that they need to work, because they received a minimum of a year and a half ”, he says.
And unions defending workers refute that many no longer want to return to the service sector because they are not motivated by wages. The workload is said to have only increased and wages did not change during that time.
“It must be recognized that before the pandemic, this sector was not characterized by decent working conditions and good wages. We have always had an inhuman amount of labor disputes, complaining not only about low wages, but also about unaccounted overtime, ”says Inga Ruginienė, president of the Trade Union Confederation.
Economists are convinced that some workers are really used to distributing money easily, so they are in no rush to get back into the job market.
“We just realized that they were so easily divided here during the pandemic. However, in the long term, we will probably have a slightly different situation and fiscal discipline rules will be reintroduced, which will begin to limit budget expenditures and we will not be able to guarantee money as easy as the state, ”says Indrė. Genytė-Pikčienė, economist at INVL Asset Management.
According to data from the Employment Service, unemployment is gradually decreasing in all municipalities of the country, and especially in Palanga, Ukmergė and Kelmė. Registered unemployment among women fell faster than that of men in June, which was also affected by the recovery of the service sector after the quarantine.
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