Due to labor shortages in Croatia, there are more and more foreign workers, and not only during the season. In Zadar's Čistoća, a job posting for new workers has been open for a year already, but there is no interest.

Foreign workers, specifically 10 new workers from Nepal, are the new reinforcement for Zadar's Čistoća.

“We simply came to a situation where we cannot perform some of our daily services without a sufficient number of employees, so from September 1 we hired 10 workers from Nepal and for now we are satisfied with their work. We will probably move in the direction of bringing in foreign drivers,” he told HRT Ivan John Krstičević, director of Čistoća Zadar.

22-year-old Angtin ran a family business with his father in his homeland, and he came to Croatia because of better pay and working conditions.

“Here I get 1,000 euros, in Nepal I would get 200”

“It is a little difficult, but okay. A lot of Nepalese have come to Croatia. Here I get a salary of around one thousand euros, in Nepal I would get between 200 and 400 euros a month for the same job. That is not enough to support a family. Yes, I like Zadar,” says Antigin.

They communicate in various ways, but for the new colleague at Čistoća they have only words of praise. “He is good, he tries, all the best,” says Hrvoje, an employee of Čistoća Zadar.

At Čistoća they also intend in the future to look for workers outside the country's borders, but also to motivate younger age groups for jobs in this company. “We are going to the vocational high school to offer and present the company and offer scholarships to interested students, to second- and third-year high school students,” said Krstičević.

The need for foreign workers is growing, so more than 120 thousand work permits were issued last year alone. 

Source: poslovni.hr