There is a shortage of Ukrainian construction workers in Poland

Many Ukrainian men have now “left their jobs in Poland to defend their homeland,” says Polish Minister for Family and Social Affairs Marlena Malag. Some industries risk losing permanent workers, she reports. The construction industry is hardest hit.

Skills shortage

According to the PZPB industry association, 480,000 foreign workers worked on Polish construction sites and in companies in the sector before the war – four out of five came from Ukraine. However, a quarter of Ukrainians living in Poland have left the country since the start of the war, the PZPB estimates. “Everyone in the industry has the same problem: Ukrainian workers,” says entrepreneur Janiewski.

Even without the recent consequences of the Russian war of aggression, the shortage of skilled workers was already high. Already in 2019 there was a need for 150,000 workers in the construction sector, today there are 250,000, as Jan Stylinski from the PZPB says. Small and medium-sized companies in eastern Poland on the border with Ukraine are particularly hard hit.

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