Overview
- Labor Minister Bärbel Bas opened the first Regional Skilled-Worker Workshop at Rolls-Royce in Dahlewitz with Brandenburg leader Dietmar Woidke and company chief Dirk Geisinger.
- Bas framed a 'skilled-worker paradox' of regional layoffs alongside strong demand elsewhere and proposed tighter networking to enable direct placement into vacancies.
- The labor ministry said additional regional workshops will follow in the coming months and will yield recommendations to secure Germany's skilled labor base.
- The federal government said results will inform an update of the national skilled-labor strategy with added priorities on AI, digitalization and stronger links between companies and labor-market actors.
- Rolls-Royce reported about 10,000 highly qualified employees in Germany and plans for further growth, while Woidke urged openness and cautioned that extremism harms the economy.