The government’s position is clear: domestic jobs can only be filled by guest workers if there are no Hungarians to fill them – the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced on Thursday, in the parliamentary committee, according to MTI’s report.
Péter Szijjártó responded to a representative’s question and said that it is factually not true that foreigners working in our country would take job opportunities away from Hungarians. Today, 128,000 employees from third countries work in Hungary. There are 71,000 vacant jobs in Hungary today that cannot be filled – he said, noting that the government’s position is clear: jobs in Hungary can only be filled by guest workers if there are no Hungarians to fill them. He also indicated that a company can only receive state support for its investment if it employs mostly Hungarian people and tries to fill all positions with Hungarians first.
The Orbán government is tightening the rules on the employment of guest workers
“In the recent period, there have been several situations where, when expanding the capacities of a company, it had not been possible to fill the jobs not filled by Hungarians with guest workers, the entire company would have moved out of Hungary, endangering the jobs of thousands of Hungarians”. he explained. He also pointed out that the proportion of guest workers in Hungary is 2.6 percent of the total number of employees, it is 3.8 percent in Slovakia, 6.4 percent in Poland, and 17 percent in the Czech Republic. Therefore, Hungary has the lowest proportion of guest workers among the Visegrád countries – said Péter Szijjártó, who also said that the national economic strategy is not based solely on this, as that would be incorrect.
At a government meeting, Márton Nagy told Péter Szijjártó why we were so committed to battery production
He explained the drop in demand for electric cars by saying that “such big technological transformations don’t happen like, poof, they just happened, and then I wish you a good day, but the transition happens cyclically. At the beginning, there is always a big boost, then there is a small decline, and then comes mass adaptation. I think that this is how you can follow all the great technological transformations in the world. It is the same with the transition to electric cars”.
“There are hupliks” – Márton Nagy also spoke about the shutdown of the battery factory in Iváncsa “Why does an energy-poor country want to become an energy-consuming battery superpower, while using Hungarian taxpayers’ money to create jobs for Asian guest workers?”
Source: nepszava.hu
