More than 7,000 vacancies have been announced on the labor market in Vitebsk and the Vitebsk region
– The proportion of employed citizens among those who applied to the labor, employment and social protection bodies in the region as a whole in 2018 was 66.7% with a target of at least 65%: 22.7 thousand people were employed out of 34 thousand in need, – said the chairman of the Committee for Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Regional Executive Committee, Alexander Khristoforov.
The norms of Decree No. 3 of the President of the Republic of Belarus "On Promoting Employment of the Population" are being implemented by both state employment services and specially created commissions and working groups. Based on the information provided by them, a database of employable citizens not engaged in the economy is formed. The task of the commissions is to carefully study each life situation.
During the year, 3118 people were registered as unemployed, particularly in need of social protection.
These are people with disabilities, parents in large and single-parent families, released from places of deprivation of liberty, youth under 21 years of age seeking work for the first time. With a quota of 3000 people, 1925 were employed.
The training of the unemployed to order by employers is not organized actively enough: the result is 42.3% with an annual target of 50% of the total number of those sent for training.
– 6986 people were employed in newly created jobs, or 107.1% of the projected indicator, – noted Alexander Nikolaevich. – In 2019, new jobs should be created for 6560 people.
The registered unemployment rate decreased by 0.3 percentage points over the past year and was 0.4% as of January 1, 2019, compared to the previous year's level. And the actual unemployment rate (according to sample household surveys) in the Vitebsk region was 4.8%. For 2019, this indicator, classified according to the criteria of the International Labour Organization, should not exceed 5%.
– Despite the fact that the main planned indicators are being met, there are still problems in the labor market. It is our duty to create conditions for people's employment. What was not done last year must be fulfilled with a surplus to the forecast for 2019, – concluded the Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee Nikolai Sherstnev. "Vitebskiye Vesti".