The search for work continues - Photo Photopress/Martin Ruetschi
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Unemployment in Switzerland has dropped to 4.2 percent from 4.4 percent in February 2010. Although the jobless rate has improved since the start of 2010 it is considerably higher than it was a year ago.
The figures were released 8 April by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco).
The current number of persons registered at local unemployment offices across the country totals 166,032: almost 7,000 people less than in February but 31,000 more than during the same period in 2009.
Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss unemployment in the second quarter of 2009 jumped from 3.4 percent to 4.1 percent compared to the same period last year, according to provisional figures released by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). Altogether there were 182,000 unemployed people in Switzerland at the end of June 2009. People aged 25-39 years were hardest hit: their rate of unemployment increased by 1.6 percentage points in a year to 4.7 percent, while the rate for those with only a secondary school education increased 1.3 percentage points to 7.4 percent.
By international comparison, the Swiss unemployment rate is still low, the study points out. European Union unemployment increased from 6.8 percent last year to 8.8 percent in the second quarter of 2009.
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The number of unemployed people in Switzerland at the end of July 2009 increased to 145,364. The new figures reveal that Swiss unemployment jumped 57.7 percent between July 2008 and July this year. Compared to end June 2009, 5,111 more people are unemployed, of whom 63 percent are young people between the ages of 15 and 24. The data was published by Seco, the Swiss State Secratariat for Economic Affairs 7 August.
Partial unemployment or reduced working hours, affects 59,914 people in 3,342 companies across Switzerland, according to figures from May, the latest available. This is a 22 percent increase in one month. A year ago, only 742 people were affected by partial unemployment.
Bern, Switzerland (20 Minutes, Fre) – The USS, Swiss unions association, is warning that the country will have 10,000 more young people on the unemployment books by 2010, noting that half of the country’s young who do not yet have jobs are not even registered.
Number of job seekers grows in Switzerland
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The unemployment rate grew in Switzerland during January 2009. According to federal figures released today 6 February, unemployment reached 3.3%, a level not seen since 2006.
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Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The number of unemployed people in Switzerland grew in December with more than 11,000 claims for unemployment on the books than in November.
Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Employment figures for the third quarter are higher for both the number of workers and the number of new jobs, cmpared to the same period in 2007, but the rate of growth is slowing, says the Swiss government.
Neuchatel, Switzerland (Le Temps, Fre) – The number of people in the workforce in Switzerland grew by 2.3% to 4.37 million in the first six months of 2007, according to figures released Thursday morning by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office. The strongest growth was in the secondary sector (mainly manufacturing), up more than 2.8%. New jobs also rose, by 2.4%, to 3.73 million jobs in the country.
