Lower Austria as a business location is in serious danger! At least that is how Harald Servus, Director of the Economic Association, and Chamber President Wolfgang Ecker see it. Compared to the AMS, self-managed monitoring shows 75 percent more vacancies at companies. In which areas is the greatest lack of strength…
The local business association (WBNÖ) ensures that people sit up and pay attention to figures: with 27,251 open vacancies, almost 75 percent more vacancies are reported in the self-managed monitoring than at the employment service (AMS), which shows 15,648 vacancies filled at the end of August.
The business location is at risk
With this, Chamber of Commerce Chairman Wolfgang Ecker and Economic Association Director Harald Servus underline that the labor shortage is much greater than the AMS figures show. The duo calls for rapid measures to secure the location in Lower Austria.
Most searched: “Trade, logistics and transport”
According to WBNÖ, the largest shortage is in the category “Trade, Logistics and Transport” with 6,128 vacancies, followed by “Social Affairs, Health and Beauty Care” with 4,053 and “Construction, related construction sectors, wood and construction technology” with 3,402 vacant jobs.
The AMS emphasizes that companies are not obliged to report their vacancies. “But we also notice that Lower Austrian companies are still very intensively looking for personnel. Although 12.4% fewer vacancies were reported in August this year than in August last year, this supply is almost a quarter higher than the level of the pre-Corona year 2019,” Martina Fischlmayr of AMS NÖ explains to the “Kroon”. The AMS spokeswoman concluded that 52,780 vacancies had already been filled with suitable workers this year.
Source: Krone
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