EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / Employment

MEPs place renewed emphasis on training and lifelong learning to tackle skill shortages

11/07/2023 (Agence Europe) – MEPs adopted, on Tuesday 11 July, the report by Anna Zalewska (ECR, Polish) on “increasing employee success in the workplace and meeting the growing need for digitally skilled workers”, according to a press release. At a time when 3 out of 4 European companies are having difficulty finding qualified staff, the report, adopted by 508 votes to 12 with 76 abstentions, stresses the need to increase education and vocational training. “One of the reasons...