Hungary prioritises workforce training to address labour market challenges

Hungary’s government has made a policy priority of training for people who are out of work with low skills or without qualifications, the state secretary for employment policy said at a conference in Budapest on Wednesday.

Addressing the conference on managing demographic challenges by mobilising disadvantaged groups of people, Sándor Czomba noted that Hungary had a “labour market reserve” of around 200,000-300,000 people who could join the workforce.

He pointed to the need for state or corporate programmes to train or retrain older people, slower to adapt to technological development, in order to stay competitive in the labour market. Workplaces must adapt to the needs of an ageing society, allowing people to work longer, while preserving their health and skills, he added.

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