15.10.2021

RECORD FEW PEOPLE IN EMPLOYMENT OFFICES

A record few people are registered as unemployed in the labor offices, according to data from the Employment Agency. Thus, the registered unemployment in the country is 4.7%, as the decrease compared to August is by 0.2 percent, and the decrease on an annual basis is by 2.5%.

The registered unemployed at the end of September were 154,936, which is 5,771 less than in August and 81,122 (34.4%) less than a year earlier. In September, 21,737 new unemployed people were registered in the labor offices, which is 2215 more than in the previous month, and compared to September 2020 there is a decrease of 6345. Another 931 people from the groups of jobseekers, students and pensioners also have registered with the Employment Agency during the month.

In September, 18,531 unemployed people started working. A total of 76.4 per cent of those who started work in September were employed in the real economy, most of whom were employed in the manufacturing sector - 19.3 per cent, followed by trade with 14.4 per cent, education 12.6 per cent, hotels and restaurants by 6.8 per cent, general government - 5.9 per cent, construction - 4.6 per cent, agriculture, forestry and fishing - 3.7 per cent, etc.

The declared jobs on the primary labor market in September were 17,196 or 920 (5.7 per cent) more than in the previous month and 3,890 (18.4 per cent) less compared to the same month in 2020. The share of vacancies in the real economy is declared in the manufacturing industry (29.3 percent), followed by education (18.4 percent), trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (11.3 percent), government (10.2 percent), administrative and support service activities (8 per cent), hotels and restaurants (6.2 per cent).

The most sought-after professions in business during the month are: teachers; machine operators of stationary machines and equipment; workers in the mining and processing industry, construction and transport; sellers; administrative staff for customer service; waste collection and related workers; skilled workers in the production of food, clothing, wood products and related; personnel employed in the field of personal services; staff caring for people; metallurgists, machine builders and related, craftsmen, etc.