INTERNATIONAL Poland: De-regulation a positive step, says Hays region MD
24 September 2012
The Polish government’s planned de-regulation of its labour market should “make the economy more efficient” and create work for recruiters like Hays, its managing director for Central and Eastern Europe tells Recruiter.
Mon, 24 Sep 2012
The Polish government’s planned de-regulation of its labour market should “make the economy more efficient” and create work for recruiters like Hays, its managing director for Central and Eastern Europe tells Recruiter.
And Michal Mlynarczyk adds that while there will be some professions where the passage to deregulation will not be so smooth, a key benefit of the reform would be to create opportunities for youth among the 50,000-100,000 jobs he says are expected.The Polish cabinet has approved a law that would deregulate 50 professions out of the near 400 that exist in the country, widely thought to be the most in Europe. Mlynarczyk notes that when Sarkozy left the French presidency, it had 133 regulated jobs, and even then was trying to reduce this number.
“What de-regulation does is it’s creating more competition, so what we’re expecting is firstly to create new jobs… what’s more important is there will be jobs for young people,” he says to Recruiter. “In reality it should make the economy more efficient… and make work for us.
“Nothing is 100% sure but if I was a betting man, yes it will happen,” he adds of the potential for the bill to pass into law, although he notes that taxi drivers – one of the professions involved – have already been protesting and for “the legal ones there will be a battle for sure”.
Poland is the only EU member to have avoided a contraction of its economy in 2009 and has not seen recession at all in 20 years. Asked by Recruiter if the country is fearful of befalling the fate seen elsewhere in the world, he admits that yes, “the talk was present since 2008, everyone’s afraid that just behind the corner there’s recession for Poland”.
The Polish government’s planned de-regulation of its labour market should “make the economy more efficient” and create work for recruiters like Hays, its managing director for Central and Eastern Europe tells Recruiter.
And Michal Mlynarczyk adds that while there will be some professions where the passage to deregulation will not be so smooth, a key benefit of the reform would be to create opportunities for youth among the 50,000-100,000 jobs he says are expected.The Polish cabinet has approved a law that would deregulate 50 professions out of the near 400 that exist in the country, widely thought to be the most in Europe. Mlynarczyk notes that when Sarkozy left the French presidency, it had 133 regulated jobs, and even then was trying to reduce this number.
“What de-regulation does is it’s creating more competition, so what we’re expecting is firstly to create new jobs… what’s more important is there will be jobs for young people,” he says to Recruiter. “In reality it should make the economy more efficient… and make work for us.
“Nothing is 100% sure but if I was a betting man, yes it will happen,” he adds of the potential for the bill to pass into law, although he notes that taxi drivers – one of the professions involved – have already been protesting and for “the legal ones there will be a battle for sure”.
Poland is the only EU member to have avoided a contraction of its economy in 2009 and has not seen recession at all in 20 years. Asked by Recruiter if the country is fearful of befalling the fate seen elsewhere in the world, he admits that yes, “the talk was present since 2008, everyone’s afraid that just behind the corner there’s recession for Poland”.
