As part of planned measures to ease staff shortages, the Government has proposed setting up so-called popup hiring centers. The first wave of recruitment efforts could target nurses, a public-sector job category where numbers have dwindled in recent years. The government aims to hire as many as 1,000 new nurses, even though, according to an October report by the trade union, there is demand for almost five times more. Nurses are unhappy with their working conditions after putting in many extra hours during the pandemic and went on the longest strike in 50 years last summer after failing to reach an agreement with employers over pay.
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