Labour Market Inclusiveness as a Key Challenge Facing Society

The labor market in Poland is extremely dynamic and diverse, depending on the region, industry, and job group. However, the key challenge remains acquiring competent employees. The inclusiveness of the labor market is one of the extremely important and current topics that both companies and societies in many countries are dealing with. Inclusiveness concerns the aspect of broadly understood diversity-in terms of different generations present on the labor market, as well as in the international and multicultural dimension, because never before have we had to deal with such a huge migration of societies as we do now. The study analyzed selected factors shaping the labor market of the metropolis, e.g. economic revitalization programs, i.e. programs aimed at investing money in creating places for foreigners; educational and training initiatives (e.g. Polish language courses, cultural training/workshops, enabling understanding of cultural differences, and thus more effective assimilation of foreigners in the metropolis. The interdisciplinary research project, part of which will be presented during the conference, aimed to try to obtain answers to such questions as: