Albania’s top exporting industry at risk as workers turn down low-paid jobs

TIRANA, May 9 – Garment and footwear companies in Albania have been facing rising difficulty in finding new workers in the past few years amid hesitation and refusal of potential employees to work for low wages, rising competition by call centers offering much better benefits and a new migration wave. A businessman in Durres, the country’s second largest city, says he has some 300 vacancies in his garment factories but is having trouble finding workers as demand for new products increases “Young men and women in the city feel offended to work in the garment and footwear sector although wages…