• Labor The 300,000 vacancies in the country of unemployment: "We cannot play the game with half the squad"

The labor crisis that affects sectors such as construction, industry or reforms, with up to 300,000 unfilled vacancies, is also facing competition from Europe.

The SEPE publishes juicy offers from countries like Germany on the EURES program portal, which 'tempt' Spaniards with contracts of

up to 20 euros per hour

for a plumber specialist in heating.

The program is not new, but it is the way it illustrates the labor shortage in certain occupations. Employers, associations and unions denounce in Spain that there are several trades that fail to attract workers. Construction, for example, is struggling to shed the stigma it acquired during the 2008 crisis and now it cannot find

bricklayers, formworkers, general managers, ferrallistas or crane operators

. There are also no welders, mills or turners in the same way that there are truckers, sommeliers, specialized chefs or cloud architects. Europe also demands several of these profiles.

Thus, the aforementioned supply of plumbers is aimed at those of heating, sanitary technology installations, heating and air conditioning, as well as gas installers and engineers of central heating or ventilation, technicians of fire protection systems, photovoltaic technicians and building electricians. In short, replacement, maintenance and installation of systems.

In this case, a permanent contract is offered with a basic salary of between 12 and 20 euros per hour. It does, of course, ask for basic knowledge of German, which can be replaced by a basic language course that will be financed with European aid "at no cost to the selected candidate." Employees will work "close to colleagues with a similar migratory background" and will also receive "help in organizing accommodation."

It is by no means the only offer on this profile.

Also in Germany they are looking for, for example,

truck drivers

(between 2,300 and 2,500 euros per month, plus a bonus system of up to 500 additional euros).

Belgium

, for its part, offers positions for specialists in refractory manufacturing, although in this case it is precisely the Ghent steel factory of the Spanish company Pasek.

They offer 14 euros gross per hour that could increase depending on the experience and shifts.

In

the Netherlands

there is a demand for a position that is also in demand in Spain: TIG welder.

It is a temporary position of 1,700 hours that could later become permanent.

The minimum wage is 2,250 euros gross.

Norway is

looking for the also requested bricklayers and tilers, who could aspire to charge

between 20 and 24 euros an hour

, at the exchange rate. There are also places for hotel employees, doctors and even hairdressers. The latter position requires "excellent" English and notions of Norwegian, or at least a predisposition to learn the language. The salary is in accordance with the agreement: a minimum of 165.25 Norwegian crowns per hour (about 17 euros), plus commissions.

The list goes on:

Denmark

needs, among others, butchers for the pig factory (approximately 2,400 euros per month);

Slovenia

, a second

tutti

violin

for his philharmonic (1,670 euros gross),

Finland

, electricians;

France

, physiotherapists;

Sweden

, staff for greenhouses (12 euros gross per hour) ...

Anyway, not all countries demand workers through this platform: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Slovakia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania and Switzerland do not appear .

The one who is here is

Spain

, which has vacancies for doctors, nurses or hotel entertainers, in addition, of course, to the few drivers, welding and boilermaking officers and slaughterhouse chain operators.

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