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.

Negative memories of forced migration during the Soviet occupation hold back a discussion how to fill predicted 35,000 labour gap.

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.

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…