Past experiences dampen Latvia’s appetite to patch looming labour gap
Negative memories of forced migration during the Soviet occupation hold back a discussion how to fill predicted 35,000 labour gap.
Inga Spriņģe, Re:Baltica
Will automation bring liveable wages to fast-food restaurant employees?
Latvia will lose 20 percent of its current workforce by 2030. Automation is floated as the solution to the impending labor shortages to overshadow the debate about low wages or foreign workforce.
Land of paedophiles
This is the English version of Inga Spriņģe’s opinion piece for Norway’s newspaper Dagbladet on why should they care about being called paedophiles. A couple of years ago an article on Facebook, shared widely by several of my educated, urbanite, latte-drinking…