Il settore turistico in forte espansione della Grecia in gara per trovare i lavoratori mentre si profila la stagione estiva • Circa 80.000 posti di lavoro ancora da riempire – e il paese si sta rivolgendo ai richiedenti asilo e all’estero per l’aiuto

Αποσπάσματα:

>Shortages are such that just weeks away from tourists flying in, an estimated 80,000 work slots have yet to be filled in the food and hotel sector – the backbone of an industry that, at 25% of GDP, is the engine of the Greek economy.

>Nationwide, hoteliers are in race to find front desk managers, cleaners, lifeguards, door staff, waiters and cooks. On big-draw islands such as Crete and Rhodes, reports of hoteliers poaching employees from competitors with promises of better pay and work conditions have soared.

>Tourism is not the only sector hit by the labour shortages. Construction and agriculture have also been affected by the scarcity in a country not only confronting a dramatic demographic decline but still reeling from the exodus of more than 500,000 mostly high-skilled students and workers at the height of its near decade-long economic crisis.

>In a bid to address the problem, partly because of pressure from local MPs, the centre-right government has [sought to legalise](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/19/greece-to-legalise-papers-for-thousands-of-migrants-to-counter-labour-shortage) the status of about 30,000 unregistered migrants. It has also signed an array of bilateral agreements “for labour mobility” with third countries including Egypt, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Georgia, India and Moldova.

>Asylum seekers, until recently languishing in refugee facilities, will take up jobs in northern [Greece](https://www.theguardian.com/world/greece) later this month after being trained by the Hellenic Hotel Association – a groundbreaking step in a nation where the coastguard and other officials have been accused by human rights groups of illegal pushbacks to keep migrants at bay.

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