Municipal offices also lack specialist staff – salzburg.ORF.at
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More voices are now mingling with the complaints about the shortage of skilled workers that has been rampant in Salzburg for years. Because now the communities – apart from schools and kindergartens – are also complaining that it is becoming increasingly difficult to get specialist staff for the public service.
The provincial capital Salzburg alone employs more than 3,000 people, Bischofshofen (Pongau) more than 300, the municipality of St. Johann (Pongau) 200. It is becoming increasingly difficult for the public sector to find new specialists, even outside of childcare and nursing, complains the head of the Salzburg municipal association, Günther Mitterer (ÖVP).
“As in the private sector, of course also in the municipalities and municipal institutions, we feel this shortage of skilled workers very strongly. Not only care and kindergartens, pedagogy, but also in administration. In the train stations, for example, we already have major problems,” says Mitterer.
Salary and security no longer decisive
The salary is only one aspect of many, and the security of the state as an employer hardly counts anymore. “These working hours are no longer attractive enough. A lot more people want to enjoy their free time. This is one of our biggest problems. We are already working hard to bring about changes in the salary scheme with the Municipal Employees Act. Of course, that doesn’t happen overnight,” says Mitterer.
Mitterer adds that the new civil service scheme of the state capital’s magistrate is exemplary for the municipalities and expects improvements to be achieved in the municipalities as early as the coming year.