“As autumn approaches, the labor market is, as usual, enlivened by the beginning of the new school year. Educational institutions are looking for teachers, their assistants and support staff, non-formal education service providers are looking for employees of additional education, various creative and sports clubs. Catering establishments are also becoming more active: some are looking for a shift for students who have worked in the summer returning to studies, others are preparing to provide catering services to schools or are increasing the scope of their activities while waiting for employees to return to the offices,” Jurgita Zemblytė, head of the Monitoring and Analysis Department of the Employment Service, said in the report.
Stable employment indicators also show the activity of the labor market. 17 thousand people started working in August. Employment service clients – slightly more than in July and June. The number of job seekers employed in the education (900) and human health care and social work (1 thousand) sectors is the highest since the beginning of the year.
People looking for work more actively than in July found employment as teachers, doctors, nursing specialists, veterinarians, electrical and chemical engineers, accountants, teaching assistants, childcare workers, cooks, and salespeople.
At that time, the number of skilled and unskilled workers who started working remained almost unchanged. In August, those looking for a job as a skilled laborer or operator were mostly employed as drivers of heavy trucks and cargo vehicles, construction workers, motor vehicle repairers, butchers or fish processors, and drivers of passenger cars and vans.
Unemployment reached 8.8 percent
However, despite stable indicators and a decrease in the number of new clients of the Employment Service, unemployment was recorded in the country in August.
According to the Employment Service, on September 1 there were 160.6 thousand people in the country. of jobseekers who have been granted unemployment status – that’s 4.1 thousand. more than a month ago, but 7.1 thousand less than in March, before the hiring of seasonal workers intensified.
Registered unemployment in the country reaches 8.8 percent. – every eleventh resident of the country of working age, who has obtained the status of unemployed at the Employment Service, is not working in the country.
The highest unemployment is in Kalvarija (12.8%), Ignalina district (12.4%) and Lazdija district. (11.2%), the lowest – in Neringa (2.1%) and Biršton (5.6%).
The indicators of registered unemployment increased in 54 municipalities. Unemployment increased the most in the municipalities of Molėtai, Zarasai, Marijampolė, Šakii, Joniškis, Pagėgiai, Anykščiai and Švenčioni districts.
2024-09-09 08:52:47