Russian Minister of Labor and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov said that the number of employed citizens in the country increased by 1.5 million during the year. He expressed this at the meeting of the members of the Council of Ministers with Russian President Vladimir Putin. TASS.
According to Katyakov, the unemployment rate is currently 3.2% – that’s 2.4 million people. Kotyakov stressed that this figure is a historical minimum in Russia over the past few decades.
The number of citizens employed throughout the country increased by 1.5 million people in a year, today this figure has reached 73.4 million.
Kotyakov also said that during the year the number of idle and part-time workers “has more than tripled”. In addition, the minister noted that the number of applications to employment centers has decreased.
“We registered 510,000 people as unemployed, which is a quarter less than last year,” added the head of the Labor Department.
On July 4, Vladimir Putin announced the unemployment rate in Russia. reached historically low 3.2%.
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