Minsk Laughs At Lukashenka’s Plans For ‘Parasites’

The capital city faces a record shortage of workers.

In Minsk, the most in-demand workers include builders, medical staff, salespeople, drivers, and programmers. This is according to data from the Committee on Labor, Employment, and Social Protection of the Population under the Minsk City Executive Committee. Meanwhile, the capital is experiencing a growing labor shortage, despite Lukashenka’s launched campaign against “parasitism,” reports Zerkalo.

“Industrial organizations (25%), trade (13%), healthcare and social services (10%), education (9%), transport (9%), and construction (8%) are the main sectors with staffing needs,” stated the Committee on Labor, Employment, and Social Protection of the Population under the Minsk City Executive Committee.

More than 60% of all vacancies in Minsk are for blue-collar workers.

“The demand for workers is mainly in the fields of trade and catering (salesperson, cook, storekeeper, cashier-controller, waiter, fast-food team member, kitchen staff), construction (bricklayer, painter, plasterer, electric and gas welder, installer of building structures), and transport (driver of a car, trolleybus, forklift, or tractor),” the committee reported.

There is also a shortage of workers in industry (machine operators, machine and manipulator adjusters, mechanical assembly fitters, repairmen, toolmakers, packers, turners, millers, electricians, grinders, seamstresses). The housing and utilities sector also needs staff, including janitors, building maintenance and repair workers, plumbers, and street cleaners.

“Among specialists, the most in-demand are healthcare workers, professionals in education and culture, engineers, programmers, finance professionals, heads of organizations and their departments, and specialists in various fields,” the committee added.

How many workers the capital needs?

As of April 13, Minsk needs almost 54,300 workers. That’s how many job postings are listed in the nationwide job vacancy database. For comparison: as of February 14, it contained 51,900 openings for job seekers.

The Ministry of Labor previously noted that Minsk has the highest demand for workers—over a quarter of all vacancies in the country. The capital especially needs workers in IT, trade, and healthcare.

As a reminder, on January 21 of this year, Aliaksandr Lukashenka stated that it was necessary to more actively bring those who are not working into the labor market, with a particular focus on Minsk. And in November 2024, the dictator said that there should be no “homeless people and parasites” in Belarus.

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