The number of unemployed in Germany rose to 2.92 million in January to 239,000. This is the lowest level since January 1991.
Compared to last year there were 111,000 unemployed less, as the Federal Employment Agency in Nuremberg tells. The unemployment rate rose by 0.6 points to 6.7 percent.
increase is by winter break due
A rise in unemployment in January is common because of the winter break, it was said of the Federal Employment Agency , The increase in the event this year, but lower than in previous years. Authorities chief Frank-Juergen Weise said: “The positive development in the labor market has continued at the beginning: For seasonal reasons, unemployment has risen, although in January, seasonally adjusted but there was again a significant decline.”
The order seasonal Influences adjusted jobless numbers increased compared to December by 20,000 from – in West Germany, the number fell by 9,000, in eastern Germany by 11,000
Employment numbers are rising -. Companies looking anyway for new employees
The employment and the number of people with a regular job are at the same time continued to rise. According to the latest data of the Federal Statistical Office in December, the number of employed persons increased from the previous month, seasonally adjusted by 44,000 to 43.3 million. That was 439,000 more than last year.
The social security contributions submitted by the extrapolation of the federal agency from October to November by 76,000 to 31.39 million to. That was 757,000 more people with regular employment than a year ago
And the companies continue to look for new employees. The number of vacancies rose in January compared to the previous year by 96,000 to 581,000. Particularly sought were workers in the occupational fields of sales, in the field of mechatronics, energy and electrical engineering as well as in transport and logistics. This was followed by occupations in engineering and automotive engineering, metal fabrication, machining, metal construction and medical health professionals
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