Germany, facing acute labour shortages with 1.34 million vacant positions, has set a target to issue 200,000 professional visas by the end of 2024, representing a 10 percent rise from last year. Watch this report for more details!

Germany to Issue 200,000 Skilled Worker Visas in 2024

South Korea will boost its annual quota of visas for skilled workers to more than 30,000 this year from 2,000 a year ago, to help companies battling a staff crunch, the justice minister said on Wednesday.

South Korea to boost visas for skilled workers amid labour shortages

Qantas is asking its executives and senior managers to swap the soft office seats and personal assistants for a three-month spell as a ground handler. Molly Gambhir tells you why.

WION Fineprint: Qantas asks executives to be baggage handlers amid labour shortage

Qantas has asked its executives to serve as 'baggage handlers'. The airline wants them to sort & scan luggage at airports. The move comes as Qantas faces a chronic staff shortage. Palki Sharma tells you how airlines the world over are in a similar mess.

Gravitas: Qantas asks executives to serve as 'baggage handlers'

Australian airline Qantas has asked senior executives to work as baggage handlers for three months as it tries to tackle an acute labour shortage. The airline's operations manager is searching for at least 100 volunteers to work at the airports in Sydney and Melbourne.

Qantas asks executives to temporarily work as baggage handlers to ease labour shortage

As the hospitality industry is facing major post-pandemic staff shortages, a bar in Germany has installed a bar tending robot to counter this problem. The 'Bar Bot' helps in cleaning and serving.

Bar tending robot introduced in Munich to tackle labour shortages

Businesses in Canada are hiring young teenagers to tackle labour shortage. And teens are keen to work to earn something for their pocket money. Quebec province of Canada has no minimum age requirement to work.

Canada: Teenagers being hired by businesses to tackle labour shortage

Japan is a country that values technology while remaining true to its traditions. Because of the country's lengthy aversion to accepting immigrants, aided by its low birth rate, Japan's population is rapidly ageing.

To meet labour crunch, aid an aging population Japan develops 'BEX' a goat-robot

Germany's new coalition government wants to attract 400,000 qualified workers from abroad each year to tackle both a demographic imbalance and labour shortages in key sectors that risk undermining the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

Germany plans to attract 400,000 foreign workers per year

This year a record number of robots were sold in the United States. This was to fill up jobs affected by labor shortages in the country. More and more companies are turning to robots.

North American countries order more and more robot

Industries across Britain have been warning in recent months that they are struggling to maintain operations because of labor market shortage. The government says it's caused by covid 19 and global factors, industry representatives say Brexit is a cause too.

Britain: Farmers urge British PM to ease immigration rules

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