{"id":167972,"date":"2025-12-13T14:21:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/167972\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:10:49","slug":"most-belarusian-companies-face-severe-staff-shortages-official","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/167972\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Belarusian companies face severe staff shortages &#8211; official"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>December 13,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk<\/em>.<\/strong> Nearly all Belarusian companies face severe staff shortages, said D\u017amitryj Krutoj, head of Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s administration, at a conference of the Federation of Trade Union of Belarus in Minsk on December 12.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have record low unemployment, and in the grand schemes of things, the market today is [favorable] for the employee, not the employer. The vacancies pool features approximately 170,000 jobs for workers needed right now,\u201d he was quoted as saying by <em>1prof.by<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that about 35,000 migrant workers employed in Belarus do not alleviate the shortage. \u201cThe pay race and tight competition for workers among our enterprises inside the country, blue-collar workers in the first place, should be under constant government control to prevent imbalances,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belarusian leader has repeatedly said he is opposed to the return of Belarusians critical of the government to their country. In April, he said that Belarus was ready to employ between 100,000 and 150,000 skilled Pakistani workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/ru\/news\/167138\/\">Belarus lists 15,000 job openings for foreign workers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 13,&nbsp;Pozirk. Nearly all Belarusian companies face severe staff shortages, said D\u017amitryj Krutoj, head of Alaksandar \u0141uka\u0161enka\u2019s administration, at a conference of the Federation of Trade Union of Belarus in Minsk on December 12. \u201cWe have record low unemployment, and in the grand schemes of things, the market today is [favorable] for the employee, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":115263,"template":"","rubric":[21],"class_list":["post-167972","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Most Belarusian companies face severe staff shortages - official | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"December 13,&nbsp;Pozirk. 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