Guest workers
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.
Why return of expats is false hope for Latvia’s labour problems
At least 9,500 people should return to Latvia from abroad every year in order to compensate the expected shortage of labor. Currently, the number of returned expats is half of that and an exodus continues.
Why baby boom won’t solve Latvia’s upcoming labour shortage
Death rate is still bigger than the number of newborns, and there is simply not enough women to have them.
How smuggler helped Russia to catch Estonian officer
TALLINN — Russia is recruiting smugglers on its border with Estonia to work as spies and informants in an attempt to destabilize the NATO country, a joint BuzzFeedNews/Re:Baltica investigation can reveal.
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…