Economic actors in Upper Austria, the country’s leading industrial region, have joined forces to address the lack of qualified workers and protect jobs. They have launched a pilot project, the first of its kind in Austria, for so-called “transplacement”. The plan consists of a shared platform managing several schemes and programmes ranging from cross-company qualifications to job sharing. Christian Mayer, who is responsible for the project at Business Upper Austria, the regional government's economic agency, spoke to Planet Labor about the plans.
A structure uniting actors from the world of work. “Despite the increase in unemployment due to the pandemic, companies in Upper Austria are close to full employment. Depending on the sector, the current unemployment rate is between 4.4% and 2.1%. While it is true that our companies are very committed to apprenticeships and that the federal and regional governments already offer a lot of integration and retraining programmes, this is still not enough,” explains Christian Mayer, who is responsib
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