Easier hiring of foreign workers in FBiH raises questions about labour shortages

SARAJEVO, November 11 (FENA) – The simplification of procedures for issuing work permits to foreign nationals in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) has raised the question of how to distinguish a genuine labour shortage from employers' inability to recruit domestic candidates because of the wages and working conditions they offer. Employers warn that unemployment records do not reflect the actual availability of workers, while the trade union believes that behind some unfilled vacancies are wages insufficient to provide a decent standard of living.