HAGÅTÑA (Pacific Island Times/Pacnews) — As Guam’s hospitality industry struggles after a major typhoon and three years of Covid-19, managers are facing a major barrier to recovery.
Opportunities are opening up for people seeking employment, as evidenced by the recent wave of job fairs offering careers in everything from education to entertainment.
HAGà TÃA (The Guam Daily Post) â Government of Guam jobs increased by 1.3% while GovGuam employees weekly earnings jumped by 10.5% in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic that also caused more than 30,000 private sector workers to lose their jobs or get work hour cuts.
Amid the public health crisis, Guam s overall unemployment hit a record-high 19.4% as of December 2020, based on Guam Department of Labor data.
That means 13,850 individuals were completely unemployed during the period, GDOL said in a statement released Tuesday.
The 19.4% is the highest unemployment ever recorded since Guam s Bureau of Labor Statistics started collecting data in the mid-1970s.
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