Productivity crisis haunts Europe: companies at risk

Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) is an opportunity for Portuguese construction companies, but its implementation until 2026 depends on solving the problems of lack of manpower in the sector and the increase in the price of raw materials. In the estimates of Manuel Reis Campos, president of the Association of Civil Construction and Public Works Industrialists (AICCOPN), between 70 and 80 thousand workers are needed and the country cannot count on the return of those who emigrated during the time of the troika. "There are also PRRs in other European countries and they will stay there," he says. In this context, "the government that leaves the elections, whatever it is, will have to solve the problem of the workforce with us", under penalty of, "if nothing is done, the PRR will be at stake" and if " lose community money", he underlined in statements to DN/Dinheiro Vivo.

For the association leader, these are urgently needed issues. As he recalls, "we have to have the PRR all planned and scheduled by the end of the year", and time has already been lost with the lead of the State Budget and the call for early elections. "If there was a situation of crucial importance for us and for the country, it was the timing and nothing was done." Now, "we are going to lose a few months of 2022, when we should already be solving the problems of manpower, of the anomalous rise in the prices of raw materials, of tenders, so that we don't have a problem that is to lose community money" , he stresses.

In order for this not to happen, "the next government will have to implement some solutions that we have identified". Manuel Reis Campos wonders how construction has "needs 70 or 80 thousand workers and the employment centers have 312 thousand workers who want to work". "Only in our sector there are 29,155, that is, with these workers we were only missing 40 thousand", he emphasizes. And he points out that "it is up to the government to verify what is happening with people who want to work and who are in employment centers".

Manuel Reis Campos wonders how construction has a shortage of manpower when there are 312,000 workers in the employment centers, almost 30,000 in the construction sector.

At the same time, he defends the professional reconversion of the unemployed through the two training centers in the sector, CICCOPN and CENFIC, which will also have to enhance the role of attracting young people.
Finally, adds the association leader, "it is necessary to promote the transnational mobility of the workforce, to allow internationalized companies to manage their human resources more dynamically and efficiently by bringing in people from abroad". A role that falls to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he recalls. Right after the elections, "the government that takes office has to look at this", he defends.

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