Germany : the federal employment Agency launches the « apprenticeship day » to fight against the shortage of apprentices’ jobs

While a new controversy broke out in Germany about the recurring shortage of apprenticeship jobs, the federal employment Agency (BA) repeated, on May 29th, its « apprenticeship day », aiming at encourageing companies to train more young people. (Ref. 06541)
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For the eleventh consecutive year, the employees of the federal employment Agency (BA) will travel through whole Germany in the companies that do not or do not anymore train apprentices. « We want to convince the companies to create new apprenticeship jobs because the situation on the apprenticeship market is extremely tense. There are more applicants than jobs to fill. And we want to do all that is possible to have an offer for each young person until September, the offical beginning of...

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