In December last year, the Vice-President Tomasz Trela and Piotr Bors, the Director of the Office for the Promotion of Employment and Business Services of the City of Łódź Office, and Krzysztof Barański, the Director of the District Labour Office in Łódź, prepared a list of shortage occupations for the young people facing the choice of vocational postprimary school or the course of studies, and for the unemployed. There are 19,000 unemployed persons registered in the District Labour Office, including 6,500 long-term unemployed ones (data according to the DLO). Training enabling change of profession is an opportunity particularly for them. The Director of the DLO in Łódź, Krzysztof Barański, informs that the Office conducts specialised individual trainings, which can be subsidised even to the amount of PLN 12,000, and group trainings for people affected by the so-called digital exclusion, meaning the ones who have limited access to information technology or do not have such at all, which can result from computer illiteracy or lack of knowledge of the language needed to obtain necessary information.

The officials estimate that the effects of actions taken will be observable to the city residents in 4 or 5 years; however, the shortages on the labour market already are an opportunity of employment to those who would like to come to Łódź and plan their future in the city.