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Youth Unemployment Growing
The second forum of human resource management is held in Baku. The event is organized by the insurance company Pasha Hayat Sigorta, and the main speaker was the Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Population Idris Isayev.
According to him, by 1 November the employment agencies were applied for employment by around 190 thousand people, of which 53 thousand were provided with jobs, and 11 thousand received the status of unemployed in the hope of receiving benefits. "By the beginning of the year the most critical state of unemployment was among young people - according to the official data at the beginning of the year, 13.5% of them did not work, and now this figure has grown due to the economic situation - the numbers will be announced at the end of the year," said the deputy minister.
Since January, 339.2 thousand labor contracts have been concluded and 312.6 thousand contracts have been canceled in part due to closure and downsizing. For example, in the construction sphere more than 4 thousand people and in the financial sector 2.7 thousand people have been sacked. --17D-
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