07.05.2021

108,600 NEW UNEMPLOYED FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR TO MAY

Nearly 108,600 are newly registered unemployed across the country from the beginning of the year to May 2, according to the latest data from specialized labor market surveillance carried out by the National Statistical Institute and the Employment Agency over the Covid-19 pandemic.

For the same period, 83,400 people started working through the Labor Offices. The highest number of newly registered unemployed so far was reported between January 4 and 10 - over 15,700 with only 3,300 employed.

In 15 districts, the newly registered unemployed are more than those who started working in the last observed week from April 26 to May 2. This difference is strongly expressed in Montana, Vidin and Plovdiv.

During this period, the total number of people registered in the Labor Offices in the whole country is 3776, and the number of employed is a little over 4,000.

In general, the trend of predominance, albeit with several hundred people across the country, of those who have found a livelihood over those registered in the labor offices, has been going on for exactly one month now.

Social experts attribute this to the ongoing action of measures such as 60 to 40 to maintain employment, alleviate anti-epidemic measures and especially the opening of shops and restaurants, as well as subsidized employment.