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Shortage of skilled workers in the public sector - 360,000 employees are missing

2022-08-25T14:14:11.863Z


Shortage of skilled workers in the public sector - 360,000 employees are missing Created: 08/25/2022, 16:01 By: Carina Blumenroth According to dbb, around 360,000 employees are missing in the public sector. Due to demographic change, the shortage of staff will increase in the coming years. © Imago There are more tasks in the public service, but the employees are missing. 360,000 jobs are open,


Shortage of skilled workers in the public sector - 360,000 employees are missing

Created: 08/25/2022, 16:01

By: Carina Blumenroth

According to dbb, around 360,000 employees are missing in the public sector.

Due to demographic change, the shortage of staff will increase in the coming years.

© Imago

There are more tasks in the public service, but the employees are missing.

360,000 jobs are open, and more will be added in the coming years.

The

German Association of Civil Servants

(dbb) estimates that around 360,000 employees are currently missing in the public sector, and the number is expected to increase in the coming years.

The number results from vacancies, but also from the estimated personnel requirements, as dbb boss Ulrich Silberbach

explains to the

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

.

Although positions have been filled in the past, the need is still enormous, so that the need for personnel has increased despite the recruitment.

Silberbach also sees further challenges and a renewed increase in vacancies for the coming years.

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In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

, Silberbach assumes that if the baby boomers, for example the baby boomers, retire from the service for reasons of age, the situation will deteriorate again

.

In order to be able to cushion this situation, he makes demands on the federal, state and local governments:

Two things are very important: Firstly, we finally need long-term personnel planning in administration that takes demographic change into account.

We need to create jobs now to prepare future generations for the tasks ahead.

On the other hand, we have to make public service more attractive through incentive systems.

Ulrich Silberbach, head of dbb

The aim is, for example, performance-based payment and a stronger focus on further training, those who continue their education should receive more money.

In Germany, fewer people are employed by the state than in neighboring European countries, which is why expenditure is currently relatively low.

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Public service – vacancies, government tasks not completed for decades

As a result of cutbacks in public services over the past two decades, many government tasks have not been completed, the dbb reports on its website.

“We are committed to the debt brake.

But we also see that Germany has an enormous investment backlog in infrastructure.

That is why the federal government should form a special fund for this that is not included in the debt brake,” demands Silberbach and sees these future funds as a viable way of not leaving these tasks to future generations.

Silberbach also sees politics as having a duty to introduce laws and guidelines that must be observed; if this were not the case, it would “ultimately promote disenchantment with the state and lateral thinking”.

The employees in the public sector are currently overwhelmed with their tasks and could not take on any further tasks and duties without more staff.

For this reason, for example, the control of compulsory vaccination or the introduction of English as a second official language were rejected.

Source: merkur

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