“From care services to air conditioning technicians to logistics and academics – there will be a shortage of manpower everywhere,” Scheele said.
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“We can stand up and say we don’t want any foreigners. But it doesn’t work, “he said of the possible resistance against immigrants. “The fact is that Germany is running out of labor,” he added.
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Scheele also predicted that the number of potential workers in the classic productive age would fall by almost 150,000 this year. “It will be much more dramatic in the years to come,” he said.
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“Germany can only solve this problem by training unskilled people and retraining those whose jobs have been lost, by allowing women who work involuntarily part-time on a full-time basis and, above all, by bringing immigrants into the country,” he added.
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The Federal Statistical Office announced in March that 11.4 million foreigners lived in Germany at the end of last year. Year-on-year, their number increased by 204 thousand and 1.8 percent, respectively, which was the least in the last ten years.
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The reason is the lower number of immigrants who come to Germany during the covid-19 pandemic. In connection with the effects of the pandemic, the Office pointed to the temporarily closed borders and complicated conditions for immigration.
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