Ceremonial handover: Richard Paul takes over in Schweinfurt!

Ceremonial handover: Richard Paul takes over in Schweinfurt!

Schweinfurt, Deutschland - in Schweinfurt took place on December 5, 2024, the ceremonial handover of the chairmanship of the management of the employment agency. Dr. Markus Schmitz, chairman of the Bavaria Regional Directorate, praised Thomas Stelzer's 21-year term in his acceptance speech and his services to the agency and the region. Stelzer, who worked for 34 years in the Federal Employment Agency, leaves a "well -ordered house" for his successor Richard Paul, who previously worked as a managing director in Donauwörth and has had a long experience in the region. In his future vision, Paul emphasized that close cooperation among everyone involved was necessary to further strengthen the Main-Rhön region when he took over on Tuesday, the website reported in-und-um-schweinfurt.de .

job cuts and integration of refugees in focus

In another important meeting of the Lower Franconian SPD MPs with the employment agencies in the region, the focus was on the topics of job cuts at Siemens and the integration of refugees. In Bad Neustadt an der Saale, 370 places were announced, which provided great concern. The SPD member of the Bundestag Bernd Rützel called for more funding for research and education projects to offer the region new perspectives. In addition, the agency representatives pointed out the major challenges in the integration of refugees, in particular due to linguistic barriers and lack of qualifications. Less than ten percent of the refugees ensure quick integration into the labor market. the website Meine-news.de further information.

The participants of the meeting also referred to the need to strengthen the economic infrastructure of rural areas in order to counteract the shortage of skilled workers. Overall, unemployment in the region remains stable, whereby positive developments in the Würzburg agency are visible, while the challenges in the other areas may not be ignored.