Labour shortages continue for electrotechnical firms

Electrotechnical businesses continue to be held back by slow growth, partly blamed on a shortage of adequately skilled workers, finds survey.
The latest quarterly survey of the UK engineering services sector, backed by leading trade bodies ECA, BESA, SELECT and SNIPEF, paints a picture of an overriding issue which has been of consistent concern for the last four quarters.
Half of all survey respondents (48 per cent) said they currently have vacancies in their organisations. Half of these (50 per