1 comment.Number of persons registering for work in January was down on 2014
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In January, the number of persons registering for work stood at 6,384 compared to 7,789 a year before, the National Statistics Office said today.
Data provided by the Employment and Training Corporation (ETC) for January indicate a decrease of 1,366 persons registering under Part I and a decline of 39 among those registering under Part II of the unemployment register, when compared to January 2014. Overall, decreases in registered unemployment were recorded among all age groups.
When compared to January last year, persons registering for work decreased, irrespective of how long they had been registering. The most significant decrease was recorded among persons who had been registering for less than 21 weeks.
The number of persons with a disability who were registering for work also decreased by 117 to 430. Males accounted for 82.1 per cent of the total number of registrants with a disability.
The largest share of men on the unemployment register sought occupations as crafts and related trade workers (17.5 per cent ), whereas their female counterparts mostly sought occupations as clerks and support workers (24.9 per cent).
The registered unemployment rate in September 2014 stood at 3.8 per cent of the labour supply, and varied from 4.5 per cent among men to 2.6 per cent among women.
In todays Times of Malta news, its stated that US citizens have to get their tax papers in order. I think there was a time when citizens of America did not have to pay US taxes if they resided in Malta but that is now changing.