Press release 29.09.2021 – Closing date 1.10.2021, 10 a.m.
Friday, October 1, 2021 | 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. | NH Collection Hotel Dresden Altmarkt, An der Kreuzkirche 2, 01067 Dresden
The National Conference of the cooperation partners Federal Employment Agency, IQ Network
and Wirtschaft für ein Weltoffenes Sachsen e.V. is focusing on the strategic future topic of recruiting skilled workers, because the creation of additional employment through improved labor market integration is an important key to economic dynamism. Shortly after the federal elections, the conference will send out a signal for successful labor migration in Germany and Saxony and show that the majority of Saxons welcome the people who want to live and work with us.
The strategic future topic of recruiting skilled workers will continue to gain momentum, as there will be a shortage of around two million skilled workers in Germany by 2030 – in Saxony, there will be a shortage of around 320,000 qualified employees. A future-proof economic policy framework involving companies, social partners, civil society and politics is needed to secure prosperity in the state.
The migration of workers into the German labour market is recognized as a key solution for compensation. This is why the Skilled Immigration Act came into force in Germany in 2020.
Burkhard JungPresident of the Association of German Cities and Lord Mayor of the City of Leipzig and co-discussant at the conference: “Germany urgently needs skilled workers in all sectors. In the areas of health, education and social affairs alone, there will be a shortage of hundreds of thousands of well-trained people in the coming years. Estimates show that there will be a shortage of 230,000 skilled workers in daycare centers and 300,000 nurses in the healthcare sector in the coming years. We can neither find nor train that many people in Germany. It is high time to recruit skilled workers in other European Union countries and in third countries in a structured, efficient and rapid manner and to support training locally. And the procedures for recognizing professional experience must become faster here. The right framework conditions need to be created now.”
So how can we be more successful in the future in attracting skilled workers to Germany as an attractive place to live and work and in establishing a welcoming culture?
“Many good offers and the commitment of individuals and organizations invite people to live and work in Saxony. These offers need to be strengthened and made fit for the future,” says Reinhilde Willems, Managing Director Operative of the Saxony Regional Directorate of the Federal Employment Agency. “The conditions for immigration have been made easier, not least with the Skilled Immigration Act. Cooperation, standards and common goals contribute to making the path into working life and our society binding and comprehensible.”
Robert Czajkowski, board spokesman for the Wirtschaft für ein Weltoffenes Sachsen association: “Cosmopolitan companies integrate people into work processes out of objective necessity and out of corporate and civic responsibility. Companies that do not yet have this view need political support for labor migration. The Saxon Integration and Participation Act, which is currently being drafted, and the skilled labor location marketing of the Free State of Saxony, which is to be established, could be good building blocks for this.” Dr. Friederike Warkus, member of the board of the high-tech network Silicon Saxony and SAP SE, adds: “Saxony’s high-tech sector is particularly representative of Germany’s progressiveness and intellectual capacity. It has excellent opportunities for growth, as the current discussion about the chip shortage shows, for example. However, such growth requires one thing above all: well-trained specialists.”
“Only through new collaborative responsibilities, new understandings of how to achieve common goals, new perceptions of the urgency of the issues and the indispensable consistency of action can we succeed in establishing and expanding immigration as an effective element in securing skilled workers for Saxony,” says Kay Tröger, coordinator of the IQ Network.
On the podium we welcome, among others, Minister of State Martin Dulig: “We need skilled foreign workers to secure our economic prosperity in the future. The basis for this is a genuine welcoming culture and a cosmopolitan society. This task requires a special personal commitment from all of us.”
“The recognition of skills and qualifications acquired abroad is just as fundamental to successful access to the labor market as the subsequent adaptation training that usually follows. This is precisely where state policy opportunities exist to expand, network and support existing federal offers. And at the same time, to engage in a dialog with the business community about how state and corporate commitment can go hand in hand in this area,” says Sebastian VogelState Secretary at the Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs, Equality and Social Cohesion, which is responsible for the new Saxon State Ministry for Social Affairs, Equality and Social Cohesion.
Integration and Participation Act is being drawn up.
The specialist conference “Finding and retaining skilled workers – between desire and reality” organized by the cooperation partners
Federal Employment Agency, IQ Network and the Business Association for a Cosmopolitan Saxony
discusses these topics and encourages practical testing.
About the association WIRTSCHAFT FÜR EIN WELTOFFENES SACHSEN e.V.
Since it was founded at the end of 2016, our association “Wirtschaft für ein Weltoffenes Sachsen” (Business for a Cosmopolitan Saxony) has taken on social responsibility and taken a stand among the general public, customers and its own workforce. Saxon companies see xenophobic and xenophobic attacks and the associated media coverage as a threat to the economic and entrepreneurial potential of Saxony as a business location.
The “Wirtschaft für ein Weltoffenes Sachsen” association aims to counteract these trends, among other things as a network with a clear commitment to cosmopolitanism and internationality in the Free State of Saxony. The association wants to make a concrete contribution to strengthening and expanding the existing great potential of Saxony’s economy for the benefit of society as a whole.
Contact for further information:
Office
National conference “Finding and retaining skilled workers – between desire and reality”
c/o Wirtschaft für ein weltoffenes Sachsen e. V.
Königstraße 4
01097 Dresden
Tel: +49 351 89 69 87-50
info@www.welcomesaxony.de