Why are there so many businessmen in Lithuania complaining about staff shortages?

  "According to Inga Ruginienė, Chairwoman of the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation, the Lithuanian Trade Union Confederation has recently been surprised by older people who say they do not understand the businessmen talking about the  lack of employees because of older people efforts to find a job are fruitless. "Young and strong people are needed because the workload offered is unbearable for the elderly. When calling a job advertisement, it is enough to say your age and you will be rejected." 

According to her, if the salary offered is somewhere higher than the minimum wage, you will usually have to work so much that you will be satisfied just because you sometimes get to sleep. A food store's cleaning lady also has to maintain, for example, the vegetable section in the company for 40 hours. The work week turns into work every day after ten hours with one holiday on Sunday. Or even an eight-hour day, but in the fridge, with no rest and only with a twenty-minute lunch break. Or at any gas station you will not only sell goods, bake sausages, but you will also wash the toilets and clean the area after working hours, and you will have to return home by taxi for your money, because there is no public transport. Unaccounted for (and therefore unpaid) overtime is so prevalent that it can be boldly called a plague. 

“There are endless examples, and let entrepreneurs just tell me that we are constantly talking only about bad employers, that these are purely exceptional cases. We are approached by many desperate people who end up losing their physical and mental health while working in inhumane conditions. And some of them would definitely choose to starve rather than permanently lose health or even die at work. You can blame the unions for subjectivity or even ignorance, but the survey conducted by the insurance company If in figures: 51 percent employees in Lithuania work in an environment that does not satisfy them at all. Another 35 percent respondents work in moderately satisfactory working conditions, and only 14% according to them, Lithuanian employees have a good job and decent working conditions."