Immigration can solve acute skills shortage in Switzerland

Switzerland, 3rd June: Switzerland can get an answer to its huge shortage of workforce by roping in increased number of immigrants.

Latest trends revealed by a study indicate that Switzerland is going to face an imminent shortage of as many as 400,000 skilled workers by next two decades.

The study undertaken by Travail Suisse, a trade union federation, Switzerland is on the brink of facing future worker shortage in several areas including education, health, elderly care, transport and policing.

Huge shortage of skilled workers in Switzerland--As a result, a large number of such job positions in Switzerland are going to remain unfilled if care is not taken to attract more people into the above listed sectors by the year 2030.

So, this means quite lesser number of police officials on the streets, huge classes in public schools and long queues along with train cancellations due to lack of required railway officials.

Increase immigration intake-recommends study--Immigration could prove to be a big boon for Switzerland in solving the problem of shortage of skilled workforce, the report suggests. This means increasing the upper cap on the number of immigrants allowed to come into Switzerland for working here.

The study also highlighted that if Switzerland does not want to allow extra immigrant workers into the nation, then it must work towards creating a highly demographically-flexible employment market.

Women and older workers a vital source of work potential--Meanwhile, a latest report by BASS (Office for Work and Social Studies) reveals that around 50 percent of the estimated vacancies to remain unfilled by 2030 can become filled provided more females are willing to join the job market in Switzerland and lesser number of people retire earlier.

This means availability of additional 200,000 workers in Switzerland for working on vacant job positions.

Part-time jobs, increased training, higher incentives for workers in Switzerland—The report has urged the government of Switzerland to focus more on providing additional training to workers. Also, there is a need for alluring workers to take up jobs in Switzerland by offering holidays. Another suggestion made by the report includes creation of part-time positions of jobs in Switzerland for solving the issue of lesser number of workers here.