5 thousand workers wanted in Romagna. And there are over 3,600 places to fill in the summer

Romagna cooperatives are looking for workers in the agri-food sector, beach assistants, educators in summer camps. President Lucchi: "It's an employment emergency"

RIMINI – The Romagna cooperation is looking for staff, especially in the summer months and, in particular, to work the land. And, given the difficulty in finding it, look in particular abroad. Because “for us immigration has always been a resource and not a problem”. Specifically, as emerges from today’s presentation of the data from the Federcoop Romagna Study Center, during the company’s financial statement meeting,the Romagna cooperatives aim to hire almost 5,000 people in the second half of the ‘year. Most of them seasonal, 3,650s, betweenthe agri-food sector with around 66%of the potential workforce, production and services, 13%, social, 13%, and cultural and media, 8% . Among all the professional figures required, the worker is the most popular with 81% followed by the beach assistant operator with 8%, the qualified worker with 3% and administrative and management personnel with 0.2%. The remainder as educational and auxiliary staff engaged in summer camps.

“THE EMPLOYMENT EMERGENCY IS A PRIORITY”
The difficulty in finding staff therefore continues to “be one of the priorities” for Legacoop Romagna and through Fedecoop Romagna in recent years we have tried to build “concrete answers”, in particular by launching targeted training courses such as academies and with a now codified personnel selection tool. The picture that emerges from this study, comments president Paolo Lucchi, highlights on the one hand the need for a workforce to support the activities of cooperatives, and on the other “the liveliness” of the Romagna cooperative world which always requires new energy.
Certainly, he underlines, “the employment emergency continues to be one of the priorities” and “concrete responses must be built, based above all on the ability to best train the young generations and on the desire to integrate the workers who we believe will increasingly have to come from abroad”. The Emilia-Romagna Region‘s choice of the possibility of employing high school students in summer jobs with seasonal apprenticeship contracts is also welcome.
Also for the head of the Cooperation Study Center of Legacoop Romagna Simona Benedetti, “the theme of reception is crucial, because without a real push for immigration, Romagna will not have economic development“. However, today, despite the “very large” need for seasonal employment, immigration to Romagna is lower than the regional one.