534,980: this is the number of new contracts registered in the Unified Labor System from January 1 to December 11, 2023.
The Ministry of Labor records and describes in detail all types of contracts concluded during the last twelve months.
By December, there were 534,980 new jobs; Almost half are for open-ended contracts, ie 223,454. Below 100,000 there are special contracts in the making, with 95,820, and those for work or service determined within the activity, with 75,747.
In addition, there are 29,062 permanent part-time contracts; from the production sector 33,748; for specific work 17,861; and 11,930 per season.
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The general figure is higher than in 2022, when there were 299,273 employees. In 2021, there were 199,562, and in 2020, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were 134,233. In 2023, the majority of employees are men, 356,786 of them, and only 178,194 are women.
Meanwhile, as of November 2023, adequate/full employment has increased, according to figures from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC). The rate was 35.6% (2,981,886), and in November 2023 it is 35.8% (3,037,803).
In terms of gender, men have more opportunities, 40.8% of them, and women 28.7%.
Underemployment, which consists of employees who, during the reference week, earned less than the minimum wage and/or worked less than the legally prescribed hours, and who have the desire and availability for additional work, decreased. In November 2022, it amounted to 22.9% (1,921,319), and in the same month of 2023, 21% (1,783,421).
While the unemployment rate was 3.5 percent, which means that 293,581 citizens are without work. That with INEC. Data from the Ministry of Labor show that there are 809,996 resignations, or lost jobs.
Other contracts
Below 10,000 are fixed-term contracts, with 8,493 people; by assignment, with 6,031; artisans and workers with 5,175; then verbal, with 3,608; and the contract for the work, with 4,563.
In addition, there are 3,100 service contracts in the country, 2,182 potentially discontinuous and 1,902 for transport.
Complete list of contracts in 2023:
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Source: Eluniverso
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