An agreement that will facilitate the deployment of professional and skilled Filipino workers to Austria was signed Wednesday.
MANILA — An agreement that will facilitate the deployment of professional and skilled Filipino workers to Austria was signed Wednesday between the Philippines and the government of Austria.
Included in the Austrian delegation were State Secretary for Tourism Susanne Kraus-Winkler, Austrian Ambassador to the Philippines Johann Brieger, and Secretary General Karlheinz Kopf. According to Kraus-Winkler, many of the workers that Austria needs are in the fields of healthcare, services, tourism, engineering and IT.“There might be the possibility that we have approximately 500 Filipinos coming to Austria per year for the coming years, for mainly, of course, engineering, IT, healthcare and tourism. As I’m State Secretary for Tourism, you might know that we do have a lot of Filipinos working also in tourism, it’s approximately 20 percent,” she said.
"That’s about 200,000 open positions that we have in the whole field of our economy and also resources system. And this number will increase within the next 15 years, probably 400 500,000 because of the demographic trends we have in Austria,” he explained.Kraus-Winkler further explained that Austrian industries are also experiencing growth after the COVID-19 pandemic, which explains the need for skilled workers.
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