Unemployment total in December 2020 up 15.9% year-on-year
7. January, 2021
Ljubljana – The Covid-19 epidemic has left a mark on the Slovenian labour market as a total of 87,283 persons were registered as unemployed at the Employment Service at the end of December 2020, which is up 15.9% year on year, and 3.7% more than at the end of November last year.
The Employment Service reported on Wednesday that 7,735 persons had registered anew last December, while 2,913 had found a job. A total of 4,591 persons were struck out of the unemployed records in that month.
It explained that one of the reasons was the increased number of persons whose fixed-term contracts were not renewed, who accounted for 4,237 among all who were registered anew last December.