Number of guest workers exceed psychological barrier in Hungary
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According to the latest statistics published by the Hungarian National Bank, the number of guest workers in Hungary exceeded 100,000.
The most numerous guest worker group is the Ukrainians with more than 20 thousand people. Compared to 2019, the rate of Asian guest workers grew from 18.5% to 41%. Thus, it is not surprising that Vietnamese and Filipino guest workers are in the second and third places with 9,400 and 8,400 people. Slovakia and Romania (7,500 and 6,800 guest workers respectively) are only in the fourth and fifth place.
The number of Vietnamese and Filipino guest workers increased by 110% and 139% respectively, infostart.hu wrote.
Almost 40% of the guest workers have jobs in the processing industry, while 10% work in the carmaking and commerce sectors. Battery plants employ more than 5,000 guest workers.
Government aims to further increase labour activity rate
Hungary’s government aims to further increase its “already record-high” labour activity rate to 85 percent over the coming years, Péter Szijjártó, the minister of foreign affairs and trade, said in Budapest on Thursday.
The government has created a million jobs since 2010, bringing the labour activity rate to 75 percent, Szijjártó told a joint press conference with International Labour Organisation (ILO) Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo, according to a ministry statement. But, he added, recent crises and threats had resulted in severe economic challenges.
Szijjártó said the pandemic and the war in Ukraine had both upset the global economy, making job protection a serious challenge.
He noted 14 years ago the government had put forward a plant to create a labour-based society based on the principle that everyone who wants to work should be able to.
“And this is what we’ve had to protect twice over the last five years, and the good news is that we managed to protect Hungarian jobs twice…” Szijjártó said.
He said Hungary was one of just a few countries where the employment rate in the post-pandemic period exceeded pre-pandemic levels thanks to the government’s investment promotion and job protection strategy.
… And our Politicians cannot get our Hungarians to breed … So, at some point, we are necessitated to import labour to fuel growth and be tax payers. Life for you.
Hungary – just another Cataclysmic POLICY Disaster of introduction by the Orban – Fidesz Government, that is and it will WORSEN, the long term RAMIFICATIONS from the Guest Workers “Flooding” in mass into Hungary, the DAMAGE it is presently causing in Hungary, then the LONG term effects will be DEVASTATING.
This is a win-win for Fidesz:
– in the short term, they get “cheaper” workers for the manufacturing and tourism, which are industries owned by friends of the regime – money to the oligarchs
– in the long-term, all these immigrants will fail to integrate, which will increase the number of gettos and insecurity; hence voters would chose right-wing parties – Fidesz keeps on controlling the party
Good move by Orban, horrible future for the Hungarians