China News Agency, Berlin, August 24 (Reporter Peng Dawei) German Federal Labor Agency Director Detlef Scheler stated on the 24th that Germany’s domestic labor force is running out, and the country needs to attract about 400,000 immigrants every year to deal with this. A trend.
He called on the next federal government to take measures to attract more skilled immigrants.
The Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit (Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit), headquartered in Nuremberg, Bavaria, is a government agency in Germany, which is mainly responsible for introducing jobs, promoting employment, and administering unemployment insurance.
Detlef Scheler made the above statement in an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung that day.
Detlef Scheler said that Germany now needs to introduce about 400,000 immigrants every year, and the number of new immigrants each year in the past few years has been far below this scale.
He warned that Germany might face a serious labor shortage, "from nurses to air-conditioning repairers, to logistics personnel, and even academics-human resource shortages are common in all industries."
Detlef Scheler said that with the development of population aging and other trends, the working-age population in Germany will decrease by nearly 150,000 within one year this year, and this trend will intensify in the next few years.
He emphasized that this problem can only be solved by introducing immigrants on a much larger scale than the current one, but he also pointed out that this is not refugees, but "targeted introduction of immigrants that can fill the labor gap in the job market." .
He called on the new federal government to take place after the September general election to take measures to solve this problem.
In response to the opposition that the increase in immigration may cause in German society, Detlef Scheler responded that people can refuse to take measures and said that "we don't want foreigners", but this does not solve the problem.
"The fact is that Germany's labor force is running out." (End)