Ministry of Labour: Unemployment rate is 1% in Belarus

The unemployment rate increased by 0.1% in November and totalled 1% in Belarus on December 1, BELTA refers to head of the employment policy department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection Aleh Takun.

There were no dramatic changes in the labour market last month, he said. More people came to job centres but the increase was not big. 600 more jobless people were registered and the umber reached 43.2 thousands. There are about 29-30 thousand vacancies.

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