In June, the Employment Service recorded a decrease in the demand for workers | Business

The total number of employees remains high. July 1 according to data, 1.46 million people work in the country. persons – 3.6 thousand. (0.25 percent) less than a month ago. The number of employed people grew the most in the sectors of accommodation and catering services, wholesale and retail trade, administrative and service activities, artistic, entertainment, recreation organization activities.

In the first month of summer, the search for employees was more passive – they were searched less than in April or May, but more than in winter or March. As usual for the country’s labor market, following actively preparing for the warm season, the demand for new employees decreased in June – employers announced 15 thousand. vacancies – 14.4 percent. less than a month ago.

Vacancies decreased in many sectors. However, employers performing education, public management, transport and storage, financial and insurance activities, on the contrary, intensified their search for employees and announced job offers more than in May. In the education sector, there are signs of preparation for the new school year – the number of job offers increased for the third month in a row.

“The decline in the demand for workers recorded in June is a typical phenomenon as midsummer approaches. The search for waiters, bartenders, kitchen assistants, fast food preparers, and cashiers is lower than before the start of the summer season, but the search for pedagogues is becoming more active,” said Jurgita Zemblytė, head of the Monitoring and Analysis Department of the Employment Service.

The usual more moderate hiring of employees for the beginning of summer is indicated not only by the reduced number of job offers, but also by the lower flows of Employment Service clients returning to the labor market. In June, 16.4 thousand people started working. customers – 17.2 percent. less than in May, but employed more than a month in the November-February period. Employment decreased almost throughout the country (57 out of 60 municipalities) and in all sectors of activity.

“The lower number of employed clients was recorded last June as well – the same downward trend in employment compared to May, as this year,” emphasized J. Zemblytė.

However, the hiring of employees has not stopped. Aircraft mechanics and repairmen, prison guards, primary and secondary teachers, crane and hoist operators, construction foremen and foremen have posted the most vacancies in the past 12 months.

July 1 154.7 thousand are registered in the country. of jobseekers who have been granted unemployment status – that is 4.1 percent. more than June 1 and 7.7 percent more than a year ago. Registered unemployment increased by 0.3 percent during the month. point and reached 8.5 percent.