Report: Finland’s forestry sector faces severe labour shortage, needs foreign workers

A consultancy firm calls on the state to provide funding for seasonal workers to receive short-term vocational training, and also suggests offering training courses in English. An acute shortage of skilled workers is threatening the future of the Finnish forestry sector, and Finland needs to recruit more workers from abroad to ensure its survival. That's according to the results of a report published on Wednesday by Tapio, a forestry management and consultancy firm. The report states that the sector needs to recruit up to 1,000 new workers annually to compensate for the number of retirements as ...