About 55,000 new jobs are anticipated to be created in development trade in opposition to the background of the prospect of sturdy progress of the home development exercise within the coming years. This was introduced by Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Safety, Vassilis Spanakistalking right now, Saturday, Might 25, on a panel on “Labor market: Scarcity of technical personnel within the development trade”, within the context of the 2nd Worldwide Exhibition “Undertaking Equipment”.

Particularly, the Deputy Minister of Labour, throughout his intervention, amongst different issues, stated: “The prospect of sturdy progress within the home development exercise within the subsequent few years is anticipated to create extra wants for a workforce of assorted specialties. Because of this the overall variety of staff within the development sector will enhance inside the subsequent two years to round 250,000, in accordance with the current IOBE examine, a degree that’s 50 to 55 thousand staff increased in comparison with the overall employment in 2022.

Pillar of financial growth

At one other level in his speech, Mr. Spanakis underlined that the development sector is a serious pillar of the nation’s financial growth, “which, in recent times, has skilled a extremely leapfrog progress”. “Specifically, primarily based on IOBE analysis, printed in March 2024, the manufacturing worth of the development sector was estimated for 2023 at 12.8 billion euros, a degree increased by 84% in comparison with 2017. This nice mobility within the development sector is anticipated, as a result of authorities’s strategic coverage, which restored the boldness of traders in our financial system”, commented the Deputy Minister of Labour.

“Rapid and efficient” authorities intervention

“Our authorities is conscious of the issues that exist within the labor market within the development trade and as soon as once more its intervention might be instant and efficient”, famous Mr. Spanakis and, specializing within the space of ​​his competence, he emphasised: “The federal government of Kyriakou Mitsotakis proves in apply that on the middle of her coverage is the employee and particularly his well being and security. With the intention of most security for staff, together with these within the development trade, we’ve got taken a sequence of institutional initiatives, comparable to:

  1. We supplied by ministerial determination for the obligatory suspension of labor on heavy exterior works primarily based on goal standards of warmth stress,
  2. we strengthened the corps of safety technicians within the area of prevention and safety,
  3. we up to date for the primary time, after 35 years, the record of specialties that may train safety technician duties,
  4. we strengthened the position of occupational physicians,
  5. we upgraded the extent of supervision of the well being of staff and facilitated the work of occupational physicians, setting particular pointers for the content material and method of holding the person medical file of staff in a round.”
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