17.03.2022

MONTANA COMPANIES ARE LOOKING FOR TAILORS, IRONERS, SELLERS

Ten people lost their jobs in the Montana area every day. The number of people without earnings increased by 4 percent per month. This is shown by the data in early February of the Regional Employment Service - Montana.

There are already 6,050 active-age residents in the labor market. For a month, 232 people joined the army of people without a livelihood. The number of unemployed is most seriously increasing in Georgi Damyanovo - by more than 16 percent. Between 9.2 per cent in Chiprovtsi and 4.5 per cent in Varshets, it is increasing in six municipalities. It is lowest in Boychinovtsi (0.6%), Vulchedrum (2.7%) and Berkovitsa (3.9%), according to DRSZ statistics. Yakimovo continues to have a high unemployment rate. There it again exceeded 41 percent. Valchedrum, Chiprovtsi, Boychinovtsi, Medkovets, Brusartsi can also be included in this group, where the indicator varies from 31.1 to 20.1 percent. Traditionally, the figure is low in Montana - 4.1 percent. Below 10 percent is the level only in Berkovitsa and Lom.

For the period every third is released from private companies. They sent 270 people to the stock exchange. More than half of the rest are women. 59 percent of people have been laid off in the service sector. Of the industrial companies, 15.8 percent of the citizens left without a livelihood have been fired.

The share of the long-term unemployed of 45.6 percent remains very high in the region. These are people who have been without income for more than a year. More than half of them are over 50 years old. Almost 59 percent have primary and lower education, and two out of three have no major.

For a month, 244 vacancies have been announced in the labor offices in the district of Montana. An average of 16 people competed for each of them. In Lom, one position was contested by 31 people. In Berkovitsa, 16 candidates applied for each job position. In Montana, 10 citizens wanted a position. The largest share of the declared places on the primary labor market are in the manufacturing industry (33.4%), followed by government (22.8%), education (10.1%), trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles (6.7%), transport, hotels and restaurants.