15.12.2020

NOVEMBER REPORTS THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT AFTER THE END OF THE EMERGENCY

The level of registered unemployment in the country in November was 6.7 percent, which is the lowest registered value since the end of the state of emergency on May 13, 2020, according to the latest data from the Employment Agency.

The most sought-after professions during the month are: installers; machine operators of stationary machines and equipment; workers in the mining and processing industry, construction and transport.

The companies are also looking for skilled workers in the production of food, clothing, wood products; metallurgists, machine builders and related craftsmen; sellers; waste collection and related workers; personnel employed in the field of personal services (bartenders, waiters, cooks, maids, etc.); staff caring for people; economic and administrative specialists, etc.

The declared jobs on the primary labor market in November were 12,386, which is 9.3% more than those announced in November 2019. The largest share of vacancies in the real economy was declared in the manufacturing industry (36.3 followed by administrative and support service activities (12.8%), trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (11.8%), hotels and restaurants (7.2%), construction (7.2%) and general government 5.4%).

At the end of November, the registered unemployed in the labor offices, according to the Employment Agency, were 218,840, which is 9,069 fewer than in October. On an annual basis, however, the increase is 29,366 people.

Last month, 29,105 new unemployed persons were registered to use the mediation and services of the labor offices, as well as another 558 people from the groups of jobseekers, students and pensioners.

In November, the number of unemployed people who started working in our country reached 17,343, which is an increase of 13% compared to the same month last year.

Of those who started work last month, 87.5% are employed in the real economy, most of them employed in the manufacturing sector - 25.5% of all those who started work, followed by trade - by 16.3%, the hotel industry and restaurant business - 8.0%, public administration - 6.3%, construction - 5.3%, etc.

In November, 2,165 unemployed persons from the risk groups started working in subsidized jobs - 412 under employment programs and measures and 1,753 - under schemes of the Operational Program "Human Resources Development", according to the data of the Employment Agency.

At the same time, the "Employment for You" scheme under the Operational Program "Human Resources Development", which started in July as an anti-crisis measure, has provided employment to 6,804 people, and in November alone employment contracts were concluded with 683 new unemployed.

The anti-crisis measures for short-term employment support, popular as a third design of the measures 60/40 or 80/20 or "Short-term employment support in response to the pandemic of COVID-19" under the Operational Program "Human Resources Development", ensured the preservation of employment of more than 300 thousand employees from May to the end of November, according to the Employment Agency.