"We have brought people from Mozambique, Cabo Verde and Guinea, but with difficulties. We have been drawing the attention of the ambassadors of these countries and the Government itself to facilitate the hiring of workers, which in bureaucratic terms is not easy. It is important to tackle this now or in two/three years we will not have the labour, which is already in short supply," said José da Silva Fernandes in statements to the Lusa agency.
For some time now shortage of labour has been a problem for the sector which, despite work done with construction associations, "continues to be a problem" that tends to get worse, for demographic reasons.
"We've been working with the associations in training, but it's not enough because young people choose to work in other areas as construction is a hard job," he said.
Despite being satisfied with the recovery of the construction sector, José Fernandes warns of "the crisis that is expected in the next two years", anticipating that "they will be years with less investment, both in Portugal and in Europe".
As for the bond issue of €18.5 million carried out in February by the Casais group, he says it was "for projects in the area of real estate, hotels, offices, housing and services, especially in Portugal".
The Casais group has evolved over 60 years from a small business to a construction group with 4,500 employees and activity in 16 countries (Portugal, Germany, Angola, Belgium, Gibraltar, Netherlands, France, Morocco, Mozambique, Brazil, Qatar, Algeria, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Spain and USA), ending 2018 with an aggregate turnover of €445 million (110 million more than the previous year), of which 319 million abroad, mainly in Angola.
M.B.Z. deployed a group of young, talented people and authorized them to smash up the bureaucracy. Over the next few years, they fired tens of thousands of employees and reassigned many others, streamlining the state. Between 2005 and 2008, the Abu Dhabi government went from 64,000 people to just 7,000. At the same time, he began harnessing Abu Dhabi’s vast capital reserves to build up a non-oil economy. Using a new sovereign wealth fund called Mubadala, he attracted new industries, creating job opportunities that would help train the local population. He honed his progressive image by including women in his cabinet. Mubadala created an aerospace-and-aviation hub in Al Ain where 86 percent of the workers are women.
By Corpely.com from Alentejo on 27 Aug 2020, 02:32