Denmark may need to look ‘outside of EU’ for construction workforce

Denmark may need to look ‘outside of EU’ for construction workforce

Foreign nationals made up 16.3 percent of the total workforce in the Danish construction industry last year, a huge rise compared to the 3.7 percent recorded in 2010.

In recent years, foreigners have entered the Danish construction industry, where many companies have reported labour shortages.The number of full-time foreigners in the construction industry has grown from 4,300 in 2010 to 26,500 last year, shows an analysis by the interest organization Dansk Erhvervd.- If we had not had foreign labor, we could not have done all the tasks, estimates Henrik Friis, industry director of construction.The development…