74% of SMEs say they struggle to find qualified staff.
Labour shortages hamper innovation, growth and prosperity.
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@EU_Commission
How many SME have considered teaming with local community and regional colleges to offer paid apprenticeships?
Many SME struggle to find staff because they demand applicants have experience, training, qualifications, etc. that can only come from prior employment in the same job. This is an outdated and unhelpful attitude. If they want staff, they must invest.
@EU_Commission For anybody else who hasn't come across it before, SMEs are small & medium enterprises.
@EU_Commission SME dominance of the labor market is a feature of lower-productivity economies, like Italy and Greece. France, Germany, and the Nordic countries all have a mostly big business labor market, with high efficiency; small firms that can't compete with this efficiency can and should go out of business. The EU should offer guidance on how not to be so dominated by inefficient micro-firms (e.g. on how to make sure there is universal tax collection, without Italian/Greek-style dodging).
