Sokolów offers "western wages" to attract staff

It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of qualified butchers and meat cutters working abroad, mostly in Germany. The second largest meat processing company in Poland Sokolów prepared a special offer to attract employees from abroad. The firm carried out a study among Polish butchers in Germany which showed that they would be willing to return to Poland if they received 85% of the salary they get there. "Our calculations prove that it would be profitable for both sides. We intend to begin a recruitment drive addressed to such people in March this year," revealed Sokolów's president Boguslaw Miszczuk. Other companies are pretty much experience similar problems. Animex, another leading meat market company admits that it currently needs over 500 workers. (Puls Biznesu, p.p. 1, 4-5) E.B.