Mallorca firms short of staff as Balearic workforce tops 650,000

Firms on Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands, struggle to fill jobs even though more than 650,000 people are working across the four islands. On Wednesday in Palma, the employers’ federation Pimem warned that businesses lack both skilled and unskilled workers. Absence from work is adding to the strain on relations between employers and staff, it said.

Pimem president Jordi Mora welcomed October’s unemployment figures despite a slight rise in the number out of work. Fewer than 30,000 people are unemployed across the islands. But with so few workers available to hire, Mora said, a positive jobs figure has become a structural problem for firms.

Topics: Jobs & labour

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com