OREANDA-NEWS. April 09, 2012. Without implementing a new strategy of employment sustainable development of economy of Ukraine can not be provided. The Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said this during consultations with NGOs and experts on the development of the draft law "On Employment".

"We outline the growth of GDP, plan to increase social standards, focusing on increasing domestic demand. We set a goal to increase the level of employment. We can not ensure economic growth without solving the problem of employment" - the Prime Minister said.

He noted that in Ukraine there is a shortage of labor. In particular, the significant lack of labor in construction, engineering and other fields. However, universities train not those specialists who need them. "Ukraine has a bias in terms of training education - secondary, higher, special, and vocational - to the real needs of the economy. These problems were created years ago and those measures that we together with you to implement, should be long term, serious that help really solve the problem of employment ", - Mykola Azarov said.

But he stressed that Ukraine needs to increase training of specialists for high-tech industries.

In addition, according to the Prime Minister of Ukraine share of actively working population almost equaled the number of pensioners, and this makes impossible to establish social benefits at a decent level.

The Prime Minister also noted that during the years of crisis in Ukraine reduced by about 2 million jobs. That is, we must to take comprehensive and systematic measures to address the problem of employment.