Germany looks to temporary foreign workers to ease airport staff shortages

  • 📰 GuardianAus
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 39 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 19%
  • Publisher: 98%

Australia Headlines News

Australia Latest News,Australia Headlines

Government plans to recruit several thousand from Turkey as airline industry struggles to meet demand

Germany is planning to launch a temporary foreign workers scheme to offset acute staff shortages at the country’s airports over the summer months, ministers have said.

Employers would have to pay workers collectively agreed wages and provide them with accommodation, Heil said.have been struggling to readjust as demand for international travel bounces back from a two-year pandemic hiatus this summer.by the German Economic Institute found German airports were short of 7,200 ground staff and flight attendants after many workers left their jobs during the pandemic and have since found work in other sectors, for example with rail companies or in online retail.

A spokesperson for the interior ministry said temporary foreign workers would not be recruited to work in airport security screening, which requires longer training times and higher levels of security clearance, but more low-skilled roles such as baggage handling.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.

the country of Goethe and Hegel is bringing in workers from Turkey, because their own ones all got sick because noone is wearing a mask at airports. Now find the mistake.

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 1. in AU

Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.