Overview
- Confebask, together with territorial groups Adegi, Cebek and SEA, published the projection on Wednesday showing a potential net deficit of about 240,907 workers in Euskadi by 2035.
- Employers will need to fill roughly 345,000 job openings over the next decade but current worker inflows will be insufficient to meet that demand.
- The report identifies mass retirements and a lack of generational replacement as the main structural drivers of the shortfall.
- Confebask is calling for a coordinated, orderly and agile plan to attract migrants and for joint action by institutions and companies, while no concrete public policies have been adopted yet.
- The confederation warns the gap could damage economic growth, tax revenues and the sustainability of the welfare system and notes a separate finding of a structural pool of about 104,000 unemployed whose skills mismatch may limit immediate relief.