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Spain: an unprecedented shortage of labor despite high unemployment

2021-12-02T18:01:29.677Z


Spanish companies are struggling to recruit workers in a country with one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe.


Madrid

“We've been looking for a server for two months

,” says Cristina Rodriguez, owner of the Expressio Café.

Most of those who show up have no experience.

Suddenly, I double my working hours

,

explains the owner of the establishment located between Retiro Park and the Prado Museum, in the heart of the most touristic Madrid.

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“Before, people came to see me on a construction site to ask me if I needed manpower and they left me a phone

,” says Ricardo, the boss of Construcciones Ortega.

Today, I am the one calling the numbers given to me by the employment services.

Many do not drop out.

Those who answer are not available, or find that the work is too far away, ”

laments this manager of a construction company in Trescasas, a small town near Segovia, 100 km north of Madrid.

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Spain, which is at the head of European unemployment rates (14.5%), at the same time has 300,000 jobs that do not

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Source: lefigaro

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