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Rio Grande do Sul is facing a serious labor shortage, which is affecting industries and commerce. Sectors such as construction and footwear production suffer from high turnover and difficulty in attracting qualified professionals.
In a scenario that has left businesspeople from various sectors on alert, the shortage of qualified labor is beginning to have a critical impact on the economy of Southern Brazil.
The difficulty of finding professionals for essential positions in the industry, construction and trade not only affects production, but also increases operating costs and imposes a slower pace on companies. Although the problem has been visible in recent years, it has worsened, according to recent data.
According to the Federation of Industries of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (Fiergs), the third quarter of 2024 brought worrying data: around 27% of industrial entrepreneurs in the state stated that the lack or high cost of qualified workers is one of the main difficulties for the continuity of operations.
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This is the highest rate recorded since 2014, reflecting the worsening of the situation and placing the state on alert.
Strategic sectors face crisis
According to Zero Hour newspaper, civil construction is one of the areas most affected by the lack of professionals.
With high turnover and high employability levels, companies have difficulty retaining qualified workers in technical areas, such as finishing and electrical installation, which are essential for the progress of construction projects.
According to the president of the Civil Construction Industry Union of Rio Grande do Sul (Sinduscon-RS), Claudio Teitelbaum, the situation is so tense that many workers end up being fought over between companies in the same industry, leading to an increase in salaries and further encouraging the movement to change jobs in search of better conditions.
Within construction companies, the roles of bricklayers, carpenters and coating specialists have been the most affected, with a significant increase in costs.
Cyrela Goldsztein's engineering director, Gustavo Navarro, highlighted that the salary of a masonry worker, for example, has risen 30% in the last two years, highlighting the impact of this shortage on the sector.
Companies like MRV also face similar obstacles, especially in specialized activities, such as painting and plumbing, which are essential for completing projects.
A Chief Economist at Fecomércio-RS, Patrícia Palermo, also points out that commerce also faces challenges with the lack of candidates for temporary positions, especially during times of greater retail activity.
According to Palermo, many workers are not willing to take on temporary commitments or flexible hours, which restricts the possibilities for retail and creates a disconnect between the supply of vacancies and the demand for professionals.
The reasons for the shortage of workers
According to experts, the high turnover and the constant search for better salary conditions are factors that contribute to this labor shortage.
Skilled workers, especially younger ones, do not demonstrate the same loyalty to companies that was seen in previous generations.
Today, many prefer to change jobs, areas or even regions in search of new opportunities and challenges, a behavior that business owners and managers say is encouraged by salary competitiveness.
According to economist Maria Carolina Gullo, professor at the University of Caxias do Sul (UCS), the heated job market generates a cycle of turnover that makes “human capital” more expensive in the state.
“These new generations are not afraid to change careers, and they are looking for competitive pay or even personal satisfaction,” explains Gullo, highlighting that the difficulty in retaining young people is one of the sector’s biggest obstacles.
This phenomenon leads many companies to spend even more on salaries and benefits to attract and retain qualified professionals.
Furthermore, the demographic transformations of Rio Grande do Sul also play a crucial role in this process.
According to the president of Fiergs, Claudio Bier, the state's population is aging faster than the national average, which reduces the number of young people available on the market.
According to him, the lack of effective programs to attract young people from other states and the prevalence of social assistance, which discourages formal work, are additional obstacles for the region's productive sector.
Small businesses and the impact of labor shortages
Another relevant factor is that the shortage mainly affects small companies.
Fiergs points out that 36,1% of small businesses face difficulties due to the lack of qualified labor, which leaves them at a disadvantage in the competition for professionals.
In contrast, medium and large companies have fewer retention problems, as they are able to offer better compensation and benefits packages, although they also feel the burden of increased costs to attract workers.
In the footwear sector, the situation is similar. Footwear manufacturing companies report difficulty in filling technical vacancies, especially for sewing positions.
According to the CEO of the Brazilian Footwear Industry Association (Abicalçados), Haroldo Ferreira, the lack of qualified professionals could compromise the production of items intended for next year, putting at risk the sector's ability to meet future demands.
The future of the labor market in the South
To face these challenges, the state government, together with Fiergs and other entities, has discussed the creation of economic development strategies.
Among the proposals are investments in professional training programs and incentives to attract young people to industry and construction, in addition to policies to encourage local workers to remain in the formal market.
The objective is to combat turnover and facilitate entrepreneurs' access to a stable and qualified workforce.
Given this scenario, the question remains: Will Rio Grande do Sul be able to reverse the lack of qualified labor and ensure the competitiveness of strategic sectors?
If I had an attractive salary, there will always be workers earning these starvation wages in commerce.
Friend, for every real that the worker receives, another goes into the government's pocket. The salary is low because we have to support the corrupt **** that governs us!
It goes to the employee's guarantee fund, it goes to a fine in case of dismissal, it goes to 1/3 on vacation, it goes to the INSS so the employee has the right to retirement, it goes to meal vouchers, transportation vouchers, health plan, so how can you lie there and say that for every real that the employee receives another real goes to the government??? I think you've never worked in your life, by the looks of it.
INSS, I want to see you use it to retire, health insurance? Where does the government give it, transportation vouchers, 6% comes out of the salary, the company pays the termination fine, the government only takes it from us.
True
The benefits only serve to help people not want to work.
Give the fish instead of teaching how to fish.
You'll live on 600 reais then
But he's not wrong!
Salary of $1.000,00
Holidays 1/12 per month 83,33
13”Salary 1/12 83,33
1/3 adv vacation 27,77
INSS 21,77 government hand
INSS 38,88 government hand
FGTS 13,33 government hand
FGTS $80,00 government hand
12% inss $ 120,00 government hand
20% employer contribution $200,00
Government Mao
For every 1.000,00 of salary
The employee receives 880,00
In credit, it remains 80,00 in FGTS
In social security 393,50
So does that make sense to you?
Do you want to work for a plate of food then go
If you don't have the money to pay for your employees, you shouldn't have a company. It's better to be an employee too. It's the law of supply and demand. This is called capitalism. The worker will look for what is most advantageous for him...
Small companies are the ones that employ the most in the country. Don't talk nonsense
Do some research and you will confirm what I am saying.
My friend, understand that the cost of living is very high, we are just not paying to breathe, this has repercussions that the salary that is paid today is not enough for anything, that is what the person is trying to say.
Who said you don't pay taxes to breathe? Get a cold and see the remedies to improve the symptoms 60% taxed!
Either you're a ****, or you really are ****!
The problem, as Silvio Alves rightly said, is completely correct. So see if you can learn something from it, you ignorant person.
Scherer, in short:
Our partner Alderic must be one of those entrepreneurs who pays a *** salary
Most of the expenses you mentioned go to the workers (FGTS, vacations, transportation vouchers, etc.). The government goes to the INSS, PIS/Confins and, depending on the industry, accident factor. However, all expenses are passed on in the prices of products and services, all companies do this.
It's funny that property prices are going up, which is wonderful! People keep buying anyway. Construction companies will never lower their profits!
And it also has competitors like the “bolsos-tudo”, where people earn more than one MW for doing nothing.
He really lied, for every real that a middle or low-level employee receives, more than 1 real goes to the government.
Imagine that the employee receives a base salary of R$1.000,00. The following must be added to it:
8% of FGTS per month – R$80,00;
Vacation – R$ 1.000,00 (annual value);
1/3 on vacation – R$ 333,33 (annual value);
13th salary – R$ 1.000,00 (annual value);
8% of FGTS of the annual amount – R$ 186,67;
Monthly Allowance – R$ 210,00.
Also added is the value of the monthly transport voucher and food voucher, which, let's assume, are, respectively, R$132,00 and R$220,00.
The total is R$1.642,00. Subtracting 8% of INSS that he must pay and the 6% corresponding to the transport voucher, the account comes to R$1.502,00.
Alderico forgot to add up and see the privilege that the worker gives to politicians who have no one honest enough to monitor the working hours of corrupt politicians to force them to comply with the same demands made on private workers. So who is costing the country more besides the workers? Or are you also an employee like politicians? Who lives in a world of wonders with long vacations, recessions, countless benefits, all coming out of the pockets of this worker who you do not value and think does not need any rights, in other words, you are guilty of the greed of insatiable businessmen. What kind of world is this of yours? But I think you do not understand, right? You must have your reasons and let the rest go to hell, right? I think we had to stop this bleeding in our country, which is the sea of money that this system takes from the taxpayer's pocket, always blaming the worker's benefits when in fact it is the politicians and their cronies who take our money, inventing more and more jobs for secretaries to take the country's money in exchange for support to continue with their hands ✋ in the lamentable money mass.
If it is true that for every real that the worker receives, another real is passed on to the government, then please put the calculations here! I can assure you that what you wrote is a belief.
Friend… all taxes, labor costs, are in the Cost Sheet, everything is included in the Value of the Product or Service!!!
That's true.
That's it! Bolsonaro told the citizens that the life of an entrepreneur is difficult in Brazil! But he forgot that the life of a worker is also difficult! If a guy goes to work for 30 days and then receives money that is not enough for anything, why would he stay in this situation for years after years!
The government charges income tax on the portion of the salary that the employer pays. The more salary he pays, the more he pays in taxes.
The problem with RGS is the lack of gauchos. They are spread all over the world.
You said it all! With a 6x1 work shift, a Sunday off that comes when he has already forgotten when he went the other day to be with his family, a salary that when he receives it is not enough to pay back to the person who lent it to him! What a pleasure the worker will have! Vacations cut into 10 days at a time and when the company wants to give it!
Many people from Rio Grande do Sul leave for other countries and the state is left without people to work.
If it is, why are they paying so little there? The businessmen from Rio Grande do Sul want slaves and not workers.
Talk!!!! The general lack of labor is not just in the south. This type of professional that is lacking there is also lacking here due to the aging of professionals and the lack of interest of younger people in continuing in the field. It will get much worse. In a few years we will be like in America, depending on the service if it is manual, they will pay much more than other sectors because there is no one to do it.
What is the salary of a plumber in a company like this?
2700,2800
On the street it is 70 reais per hour
After the Bolsa Família, people don't want to work anymore. Having children has become an industry. There are many people who don't need it, sucking the INSS. Then they complain about the government. Bolsa everything, gives votes and perpetuates vagrancy.
Your ****, blaming the Bolsa Família, you want children to work in construction for that **** rich ****.
In the US, employers don't pay without working. And there's no reason for it to be any different. Illness, maternity, a sick child, a death in the family... any problem not caused by the company is yours. The tax there is 6% for everything, food and medicine is zero percent. Is that okay with you?
So run there before your German friend closes the gate
Go there then
No one talked about children, but about their **** parents!!
So you don't want to work either, your comment has nothing to do with it, read D again and think. The country is sinking and no one wants to do anything, someone is paying the bill, so that many people can stay in trouble. And the government is most to blame for this, give people jobs, training, courses, otherwise free money is over and you don't get it, so the frog jumps.
Who pays for the Bolsa Família? The government doesn't produce anything, it uses the money it took from taxes, from business owners and workers. At least the person who receives the benefit should know who is paying.
Pure truth, **** bag. Those who can pay are those who pay taxes. Why work with so much luxury?
Sell your company and go live with 600 reais in luxury then
Bolsa Família is only for women, workers' salaries and families, it has nothing to do with Bolsa Família
You are a little misinformed! The aid is widespread, it goes to any type of resocialization center! Many are receiving aid, and the money goes to the institutions. The result is the emergence of new ruling classes in politics, using slave labor under the banner of social action!
Stop working and have children and be happy with the Bolsa Família. Stop talking nonsense, man. 600 reais isn't even enough to buy snacks for children. Do you think there are jobs for everyone who wants to work???? There are millions of people who have been looking for jobs for a long time and can't find any. Calling others **** is easy, right? You don't know what you're talking about. You're ignorant.
You just need to do a quick search to see that there are states in Brazil where there are more people using the Bolsa Família program than working. They take their bread from the sweat of others to give to ****.
The Bolsa Família program bothers you, right? Why aren't you bothered by millions paid every month to the daughters of military personnel, and it's for life, just to name one thing?
True. That's a shame. Then when they want to reduce it a little, the Senator, who is a soldier, complains.
There may not be jobs, but there are jobs for everyone who has drive and courage, because the lazy ones are just trying to help.
You'll work for free then
People think that Bolsa Família pays bills and feeds a family, our workforce is scarce, because due to low wages, inflation, high prices of construction materials, tools, fuel, I am a construction professional, with experience in my portfolio, and several courses in the area, and I am unemployed, companies make several requirements, to join as an employee, even SPC, you cannot be in debt, apart from the obstacle of age (I am not old), no one will want to work, struggling, for a minimum wage, having all this opportunity, with a high salary, being able to work from home.
Is it that working from Sunday to Sunday sometimes with a day off every 10 days for 1700 reais or less do they want qualified labor? At a time when people make money on the internet, why kill themselves?
Set a decent salary to see if there are no candidates.
Companies complain that they can't increase salaries but they open new branches all the time. Hypocrisy, in short.
Blame your government, which receives the value of your salary from those who employ you!
Between 2019 and 2022 there were no taxes in Brazil, right? I see…
Yes, there were already many taxes created since 85 by left-handed governments! The last government reduced many, but unfortunately, the leeches returned to power!!
Go and find out exactly who was elected by direct vote was Tranquedo Neves in 85 if my memory serves me right he didn't govern to get to the government of lefties as I said it took a long time there were many events with governments we had many events in the country get informed correctly
A decent salary is easy, add up your salary and taxes on it and, instead of 1.800 reais, you will receive 3.600 reais!
It seems **** that business owners want to avoid paying taxes to spend less, if it's to increase the employee's salary they will ask to leave it as it is