The recent shortage of labor has forced entrepreneurs to seek it from competitors, even in other sectors. However, this relatively sudden shift from a surplus of workers to their shortage is the result of decades of ineffective government policy that has not reformed education in line with the needs of the economy, nor encouraged the economy to prepare for what it is now facing.
Tomislav Cvetko, owner and member of the Management Board of the company Oprema from Ludbreg, proposes measures that we assume could yield results, but the question is how acceptable they are to the government (regardless of its composition).
The measures proposed by the entrepreneur from Ludbreg will be difficult for any finance minister to accept. However, companies have already begun to snatch workers without choosing means. The problem needs to be resolved before it escalates and moves to the pages of the crime chronicle. Even if it requires radical methods.
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To avoid placing all the blame on the state, we will say that companies must also work on eliminating the causes of employee departures. Besides salary, insecurity due to fear of job loss may be even more important. According to Eurostat data, only 2.3 percent of workers in the European Union have fixed-term contracts (three months), while in Croatia, it is as high as 8.4 percent. The president of the professional association of human resource management employees, Centar HR, Saša Jurković, says that insecurity is certainly one of the reasons for employee departures.
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