German trade unions call for higher investment to prepare workers for digitalization

BERLIN, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) — The Confederation of German Trade Unions (DGB) has urged German policymakers and businesses on Monday to ramp up investments to equip the national labor force with the skills needed in an increasingly digitalized workplace.

"The consequences (of digitalization) will only be accepted by people, be they workers or consumers, if the technology in question serves them rather than vice-versa", DGB president Reiner Hoffmann told the newspaper "WELT". As a consequence, it was urgently necessary for "much more to be invested" in the training and retraining of staff in Germany with view to innovations such as […]

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