Example of African drivers working in public transport was a result of drivers protesting for better wages. So instead of improving/increasing salaries,they welcomed immigrants
@7adzius
9 күн бұрын
It's so appalling to see all of these economists push immigration to have people willing to work in slave like conditions instead of respecting the actual working force of the country.
@siren8624
9 күн бұрын
Ah yes they totally replaced the complaining Lithuanian staff with a single black bus driver who runs the airport line, sure. Logic.
@magma2680
9 күн бұрын
@@siren8624 well i have seen a few dozen so i don't think its just one?
@NoName-md5zb
9 күн бұрын
Also public transport bosses payed themselves huge bonuses
@kq7739
9 күн бұрын
@@magma2680 *30 from latest articles
@blank7818
9 күн бұрын
The jobs that have a decent wage are not the ones having a labor shortage. Its the ones where you have to slave away for the minimum are the ones where the issue is.
@VV-wc4bg
9 күн бұрын
Yes because if you're going to do that, it's more beneficial to do it in a richer EU country and has been since 2004.
@stashymane
9 күн бұрын
I've been searching for a software dev job for 3 months now - it's either they want to pay you less than a Maxima cashier gets, or they respond 2 weeks later saying they chose another candidate. There is no labor shortage, there is only a shortage in employers that aren't trash.
@blank7818
9 күн бұрын
@@stashymane Oh yeah deffinetly I understand where you are coming from. I think the employers are really picky and then they complain nobody wants to work.
@nobertstanel9428
9 күн бұрын
Same unqualified work in Netherlands will pay you twice as much.
@testvienas4611
9 күн бұрын
@@nobertstanel9428 twice? more like 8x
@bugra320
9 күн бұрын
There isn't any labour problem, there is a low wage problem
@fidenemini111
8 күн бұрын
High wages would call the rise of cost of living as prices follow the salaries. You can not make hasty and sudden movements in economy. No government would do it. Such things are done slowly.
@averagejoe7987
8 күн бұрын
Repeating the same old statement doesn't make it come true though. Higher wages can't travel back in time 20 years and father the children that are missing in today's workforce. You can't hire people that simply do not exist. There are many countries with higher wages yet you won't be able to show me a single country where higher wages led to a higher reproduction level. At any point in time most of our ancestors were much poorer than we are yet all of them were capable to father descendents. We don't have an economic problem, we have a cultural problem that lead to a catastrophic demographic collapse. The baltic states are the frontrunenrs or demographic change in Europe and not a single person of influence in Lithuania is addressing it.
@MrVaidas82
6 күн бұрын
What if the cost of living is allready high??
@GodsWheat
5 күн бұрын
There is also a huge issue with requiring you to have a lot of experience/ bachelor's degree, I studied accounting in a vocational school but nobody would hire me because i have a diploma not a bachelor's degree, but when I moved to uk I somehow managed to find a job without any issue....
@UndeadCrabstick
9 күн бұрын
The situation in the baltics is such that only low paying high stress jobs have a labour crisis. One of issues is that people there aren't paid well, ar forced to work for 2 people, and have high health risks that cost too much treat. Big companies want to hire 1 person to do 2 people job without paying a 2 people wage.
@Noelis
9 күн бұрын
The problems is that as always employers are search for highly skilled, highly motivated and low paid workers, it's not joblesness problem but more of a salary.
@leps69
9 күн бұрын
imagine working 12 hours a day in a fridge for 700e lol when you can do same job in other country for 3000e
@Noa15Lv
9 күн бұрын
In which one in Baltics? Don't even bother with Latvia, working in fridge pays the same AFTER all the taxes
@leps69
9 күн бұрын
@@Noa15Lv in Lithuania there is jobs that still pays like 600 a month and these people dont understand why no one is working for them
@Noa15Lv
9 күн бұрын
@@leps69 I did my part of retail job in "Maxima" for 3 years, mostly in warehouse, barely scratching 700 euros an month [after taxes] + ass kick due to my freely willing of "working extra hours" ... Management warned me about it that i "CAN"T" work more than 150h an month. Yearly refund taxes was an nice boost.
@leps69
9 күн бұрын
@@Noa15Lv in Lithuania if u work more than 40hrs a week u have to pay extra taxes. Sometimes u get idea of ur financial boost but in the end u have to pay for no reason. Last year i had to pay 259e for i think two or three weeks of overtime. Iv been living in other country for 12years and made a choice to come back to lithuania. Now once again i left the country but this time im not thinking about coming home. Spent 3 years back home just getting coins and in the end i have to pay government
@Noa15Lv
9 күн бұрын
@@leps69 Hmm... I've been doing Road work since this year April and well, bigger salary = bigger taxes... Mostly i'm doing all the shoveling working and helping with small stuff out. Like... Got an check of "1.5k [ before taxes ] " this month, 201h totally. 473.36 euros went into taxes and i got 1k on a hand. Conclusion: Bullcr*p.
@tonycavanagh1929
9 күн бұрын
LOL, pay a decent wage.
@YM-NY
9 күн бұрын
My wife is a nurse in NYC. Every job she’s had so far has either been a 3 or 4 day work week. She prefers working 3 12 hour shifts (3 weeks with 3 shifts and 1 week with 4 shifts) to the 4 10-hour shift schedule. Whatever the case may be it has never been an issue for her or the hospitals and this kind of a schedule works just fine for everyone involved.
@RemboUSMC
9 күн бұрын
Some of us have relatives, a bloodline and even a Lithuanian last name but because our relatives emigrated before 1918 we don't qualify for citizenship. There is no incentive to come back without citizenship.
@josephkrizauskas1052
8 күн бұрын
That includes me. My Grandparents came to America in 1912.
@MrVaidas82
6 күн бұрын
What's the point if you don't know how to survive here ? All that is waiting is shitty wages, cold climate, oncoming war and high prices. (of course not that expensive as usa , but it will surprise you)
@kjjohnson83
3 күн бұрын
I have this problem. I get that the papers say Imperial Russia, but we have records from the village that show we were in Lithuania for many generations. I wish that was taken into consideration.
@MrVaidas82
3 күн бұрын
@@kjjohnson83 What is the name of that vilage ?
@noob8
9 күн бұрын
Sadly salaries and prices are poorly correlated in Lithuania.
@Teoras
9 күн бұрын
6:58, the debate is not too early. I do not comprehend how everyone is alright with a 5 day work week. Everyone I see working 5 days a week is overworked and has no time to rest, especially when most businesses work monday to friday. I'd much rather work 4 days a week even with the same hours than 5 days a week.
@mariusrutkaus
9 күн бұрын
Exactly. I work in academia and usually end up 10-12 hours at work. Untill Friday I'm so exhausted that this day is usually useless but I still have to show up. Nothing would change to my output if I'd skip showing up to work on Friday, except I'd be better rested, more attentive and generally more productive during Monday through Thursday.
@tomaszvinys2389
9 күн бұрын
Yeah... they complain about employees shortage. What really they mean is shortage of cheap, skilled and hyped to work. Obviously - you can only have 2 out of 3...
@tomaszvinys2389
9 күн бұрын
If they really need more workers - they should reduce unemployment benefits. Because that highly corelates with unemployment levels (especially among less motivated people; you know what I mean). If what is being told in the video (ant those BS articles) was true, uneployment rates in LT would be very low. But they aren't. They're ~ normal.
@TabbuEme
9 күн бұрын
@@tomaszvinys2389 Unemployment benefits are kinda low though, if someone isn't working with the peanuts they give out, they're not gonna start working a shitty factory job that pays 600 euros for a lot of your time and health. The benefits are alright for the first few months, but it gets lower quite quickly. Would no benefits make me take up a shitty job instead of taking my time finding a place that pays well and doesn't treat the employees like garbage? No, it would just make it more expensive to take time to look for a job.
@AruLily
9 күн бұрын
it's always been about quality not quantity but when people did dad all they got us ''i want more quality'' but that tires people out so quality goes down, companies forget that quality producing workers need rest if they want to produce a lot in a short time
@UndeadCrabstick
9 күн бұрын
Same in Latvia. You are expected to give perfect results with minimum training while working as 2 people.
@testerLTU
9 күн бұрын
Thing is the total income tax in LT is 40% (from >€2k/month), it's blatantly disincentivizing the workforce. Pair that to overarching bureaucracy and you have 900k people working in the private sector trying to feed the other 2 million people. Who can blame those who don't want to work?
@domaxltv
8 күн бұрын
I don't know when the last time you looked outside was, but half the businesses are bankrupt after absolutely suicidally stupid economics that almost made government owned businesses go bankrupt since COVID
@jakecakestuff1443
3 күн бұрын
Agree, working in Lithuania im a bit amazed that I earn on paper 2750 euros per month with a international company as a office worker but after that 40% take (income tax and SODRA) I receive less than 1500 eur. I emigrated from the Netherlands in 2021 and when I worked a office job there for 1900 euros on paper, I received 1600 after tax. Not to mention every time I do my yearly tax return in Lithuania I don't get anything back or I have to even pay up lol, has me seriously considering to find a 100% remote job in the Netherlands that I can work from Lithuania
@mignas
7 күн бұрын
Baltic countries are top countries where majority of businesses rely on low wage workers.
@lama2584
9 күн бұрын
i had 3 job interviews for a job role i was confident id get as i already have multiple years of experience doing and doing now freelance (CAD for PV systems etc. ), go through the rude interviews just to be offered barely over 1k euro after taxes .... In Vilnius that is really bad pay
@TabbuEme
9 күн бұрын
You can get 1.5k working in IKEA assembly lines with no qualifications. It's not that there aren't places that pay well for your skill, it's just that those jobs are taken and nobody leaves a good job.
@AGM_V2
9 күн бұрын
Honestly worked in production for my minimum wage and during work the hours were either extreme pressure or doing nothing a whole day. During the off sezon we had to end work early because we already make everything.
@magma2680
9 күн бұрын
dumb or inflexible leadership that doesn't know how to expand their business right there.
@bush_wookie_9606
9 күн бұрын
Hate to say it, but un-skilled immigrant labour ruins countries unless it's tightly controlled. My own country of the UK is a prime example. The government opened the flood gates to solve the low wage job problem and now many of our cities will soon be less than 50% British born living there. Now ironically I'm married to a Lithuanian immigrant, who left Lithuania due to no jobs in her field of science. I just hope Lithuania gets it right as to be honest I would happily move there as I'm an introvert anyway.
@NoName-md5zb
9 күн бұрын
Why do you hate to say it?
@Tundra_Hunter
8 күн бұрын
It's not the immigrants' problem for immigrating, I'm sure they'd also enjoy a higher wage, they just have to settle for less due to their circumstances. The real issue is the companies that scrounge every penny from every worker that they can, it's just unbridled greed.
@hanshoffmann2582
8 күн бұрын
The flood gates are already open here. We let in hundreds of thousands of migrants in the last few years from the third world and poor countries of the former USSR.
@erika4843
8 күн бұрын
You dislike immigrants but you married an immigrant from Eastern Europe (just like Trump with Melania). How ironic.
@NoName-md5zb
8 күн бұрын
@@Tundra_Hunter they dont enjoy any wage. They dont work.
@realaurorien
9 күн бұрын
In the company i work for our management has considered the idea of a 10 hour workday but a 4 day work week, so the same hours a week but you get 3 full days off. In my opinion if any of this is to be implemented it should only apply to labour jobs, and to doctors, teachers, who choose to work 5 days, the fifth day could count as overtime, you cant put a measure on their jobs impact, its not industrial or anything like that, it doesn't revolve around profit.
@dominykaszakrys3373
9 күн бұрын
nobody wants to work for cents and then give 50% of that for healthcare, tax and revenue firms...
@rlukas4282
9 күн бұрын
Lets be real, there wont be any problem with labour, they always can call on workers from other countries that are poor and fill the spots. In Vilnius im shocker to hear someone speak lithuanian language, theres always russian speakers from Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhastan etc, etc, also full of darker skin people like indians or idk what, these people will break backs and do it for way less, sucks for ur average lithuanian, but thats life, they wont pay ur people fair salary, they will call on someone from some shthole that will do it for 3 times less.
@Lithuanian_NAFO_lad
9 күн бұрын
I haven't felt this problem myself (which is surprising, seeing as I come from the north, a town called Joniskis), but the labour shortage is no suprise, considering the fact many nations suffer from this. Eh, we'll manage. Just for the love of everything, we should not make a 6 day work week. That would be disastrous.
@fokus5097
9 күн бұрын
As a person that is very passive towards government, but it they force me to work 6 days, I gonna join very funny things against government...
@7adzius
9 күн бұрын
It's really frustrating to see economy and professionals talk about "making more babies" as if it was as simple as increasing the output of grain or something of the like. They come off as complete tone-deaf to societal issues, which frankly, this is one. Randomly throwing money at the problem won't fix it, it's just a band aid fix. like genuinely, why shouldn't I move to literally any other western country where I can get an average job and enjoy a good, balanced life and start a family there instead? I understand that things have improved greatly here and it's possible to achieve a lot if you work hard enough but you gotta be realistic. People WILL take the easy way and it's okay.
@WalterLeitmeyer-y4u
9 күн бұрын
Another eye opening video. At least the statistics on the population really surprised me. In 1995, when I first came to Lithuania it was pointed out to me that Lithuania's total population was reaching it's pre-WWII level; over 3.5 million people. The Soviets, Germans, and the war itself, according to Lithuanians I talked to, 1.5 million were either killed or deported. I do not think its the workweek as it might be keeping Lithuania's in Lithuania.
@Ovid-x9h
9 күн бұрын
There are many employees, it's just that the requirements are high. Everyone want with experience...
@Cabral_del_Norte
5 күн бұрын
I felt many young Lithuanians leave abroad to work; I know a couple working in Spain, French, or the USA.
@Gulitize
9 күн бұрын
Declining number of workers results in higher bargaining power of the remaining ones. So politician who talk about a longer work week or more hours live in a fantasy land where employee are stupid.
@mykstaz793
8 күн бұрын
As always wonderful video. It’s funny that Canadien (foreigner). Makes most relevant video about Lithuania. One thing would interesting to see the productively progress in Lithuania. Of course there is Google. 😊
@liutaurasgrybauskas8377
9 күн бұрын
Labor shortage is actually a wage shortage, change my mind
@damlabusraaksu
9 күн бұрын
I have been seeking a job since June 😅, if there is a shortage, Why don't hire me?
@danrook5757
4 күн бұрын
What color is your skin
@damlabusraaksu
Күн бұрын
@@danrook5757 regular White. not like Indian or African
@Mendogology
9 күн бұрын
That was very interesting to watch!
@Takosaga
9 күн бұрын
Would be interesting to see the directions for labor for the baltics in the coming years since the baltic countries are expecting population declines.
@GodsWheat
5 күн бұрын
I think the emigration angle is a bit bullshit there are hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians outside the country wouldn't it be more cost effective to convince people to return to Lithuanian, in general the cost of integrating people to a society is very expensive and new emigrants will retire in the future as well it's import to encourage child birth
@MUSIC4realLIFE
3 күн бұрын
Yes, but what about actionable steps everyone can take today? We need you poster ! Maybe a poster featuring a lovely lady purchasing some elegant lingerie-'lingerie' means is French - we're looking to boost these numbers!
@bakhtiyorkuliev5293
9 күн бұрын
when and if you do not allow visitors open bank account, do not allow foreigners connect easily to internet, and do everything to just make tourists come, stay, spend money and go away ... that shortage issue will only worsen. Lithuania is nice country with very friendly people but they do nothing to hold on to qualified visitors and as a result end up with negative selection so dreaded in insurance industry. Country is so small that no economy of scale is possible there so major everything will ditch it at all cost. even small resources are not concentrated, but spread evenly between 3 major cities which makes it even worse.
@ZNZBRGEM
7 күн бұрын
This will eventually be solved by robotics/AI, whether you likes it or not, that's where the world is heading.
@deank.4169
9 күн бұрын
you are still pronouncing words and people's names as if you are an English Canadian who was required to learn some French in school. With respect from a fellow Cdn with an LT wife also. The dot over the e is not the same as the French accent. Don't over think it eh. The woman's name is simply Egg-le. Not Egg-lay. :)
@syedabbas-i6g
8 күн бұрын
bro can you make a video about how to search for a job in Lithuania as student and as a full time worker.
@Swedishfinnpolymath
9 күн бұрын
You mean "working enough" in the American sense of the word or the Japanese?
@HelloHi-g2u
9 күн бұрын
In the sense of society not collapsing lol selfish people are not having kids despite being 10x richer than their great grandparents.
@Swedishfinnpolymath
9 күн бұрын
@@HelloHi-g2u I feel like the working class people have already had kids and will have more if they can afford it. It's the upper class people that know their worth that are not having them with sub par partners. There are a lot of entitled morons in the US and there is a sanitation program being implemented right now to solve that problem.
Flat price is 150k eur you earn 900eur netto... Food cost 300eur. Rent cost 400 leftover... 200 eur for entertainment
@MrSovetsky
9 күн бұрын
Japanese and koreans prosper because one generation busted they're behinds. Nowadays people don't want to sacrifice like that.
@edmundas919
9 күн бұрын
Working in an office, I rather work 6 days than 4, since one person have limited mental capacity and increasing hours does not necessary result in more job done, but others have issue with commuting, so i don't know. Wages should regulated by a market and not by a politician. If no one wants to enter job position, wage should increase until someone appears. Importing cheap labor solves problem temporary, but makes everyone poorer in a long run. But politicians term is not that long so they look only for quick fixes, which would make them look good now.
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