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Labour market imbalances across Europe are becoming increasingly severe, with shortages in highly skilled professions such as healthcare, engineering, and IT, alongside surpluses in roles like clerical support and designer-related occupations. Countries such as Malta, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Italy, and Romania report the highest shortages, while Spain, Austria, Latvia, Portugal, and Finland face a significant surplus of workers. Particularly women are disproportionately affected by unemployment risks.

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Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal inspected river cruise ships and freight carriers in September coordinated and supported by the European Labour Authority and the waterborne law-enforcement network AQUAPOL. 78 ships and 82 companies were checked. Over 330 employees were interviewed. Breaches of minimum wage rules, expired visas or long working hours were discovered. Legal proceedings in at least 100 cases were initiated. 

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The document provides insights and practical tools useful not only to national competent authorities in the field of posting of workers, but also to a wide range of institutions.

Around thirty workers were controlled, some of them were identified as third country nationals using fake ID cards from EU member states.

ELA has launched today it’s new information and awareness raising campaign during a press conference in Helsinki, Finland. The first ELA-supported joint inspection between Finland and Estonia is also taking place at the same time.