The government will provide jobs for 100,000 people this year under a public works programme, Labour and Welfare Minister Erika Szucs said at a forum in E Hungary on Saturday.
Under the government’s “Road to Work” programme, several tens of thousands of people have enrolled in training to improve their position on the labour market, Szucs said.
Head of the public works council Laszlo Sandor said that in the winter-spring season of the project, 9,000 people had found jobs, but employment opportunities would continue to be on offer in forestry, water management, railways and hospitals, as well as in state administration offices.
Public work will also be offered during construction of a new section of motorway M3 in Hungary’s disadvantaged eastern regions, he said.
I know, lets create some more jobs as ticket inpectors on the Budapest Metro.
Jees these guys are dim. Hungary has one of the highest public sector employment in Europe, so what do they do, increase it.
They need to stimulate private sector growth and employment, not just create further burden for it.
Is there any hope?
JD, you’ve got it, man!! I feel so stupid living in a backward country like the USA. We ain’t got no damn “ticket inspectors” over here, Man! To get on the bus, I have to show my pass to the driver, or else deposit money into a machine right while he is looking. No inspectors needed.
And to get on the metro, I have to either have a coupon or a pass and go through the turnstyle using that. Once when I enter the system, and then when I leave it. Again, no inspectors are needed.
But I guess in Hungary, when you can have a system employing 30,000 Kafkaesque “inspectors” as opposed to a mere fraction of that number, they’ll go with the 30,000 warm bodies, for sure. Their way must be the best in the world, therefore.
Hey no fair! You can only do April fools jokes on April first!