Rising unemployment in China exposes precarious migrant workers
Lusa - China - 31/08/2020
Macau: Unemployment rate rises to 2.7 percent between May and July
Lusa - Macau - 28/08/2020
Macau’s unemployment rate stood at 2.7% between May and July, an increase of 0.2 percentage points compared to the previous period, from April to June 2020, was announced on Thursday.
“The unemployed population was composed of 11,100 individuals, more than…
Macau has lost thousands of non-resident workers since January
TDM - Macau - 27/07/2020
Macau had 186,427 non-resident workers at the end of June, 7071 fewer than in January.
Data published today by the Directorate of Services for Labor Affairs (DSAL) show significant declines, especially in Macau’s hotels and restaurants. The sector with more imported…
Favela with 'homeless from quarantine' grows in São Paulo
Folha de S. Paulo - Brasil - 11/07/2020
New unemployed people are evicted by the hundreds; drivers and couriers live in occupation.
Mother of five, caregiver Paula Evelin da Silva, 30, had to rush out of the house after repossession two years ago. Since then, she was able to pay the rent, but with the pandemic…
Mozambican government without strategy against unemployment
Lusa - Mozambique - 16/06/2020
The Center for Democracy and Development (CDD), a Mozambican NGO, today accused the Government of lacking a “clear strategy to lift millions of young people out of unemployment”, pointing out that the executive does not indicate the goals it revised due to the…
The supply of informal jobs collapsed
Folha de S.Paulo - Brazil - 29/05/2020
Of the total of 4.9 million jobs cut, 3.7 million came from informality.
A pandemic of the new coronavirus caused the pillar that had been supporting the labor market to collapse.
Informal work, which had been hitting the back of the record and reducing unemployment…
Over 860,000 Brazilian jobs wiped out in April
Xinhua -China - 28/05/2020
A total of 860,503 formal jobs in Brazil were wiped out in April amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, the biggest monthly loss of jobs since records were kept in 1992, the Economy Ministry said on Wednesday.
The figure represents a 17.2 percent increase in job…
More than one in six young people is unemployed
Dinheiro Vivo - Portugal - 28/05/2020
ILO data reveal that the pandemic caused a triple shock in the young population, the most affected by unemployment.
The covid-19 pandemic affected various sectors of activity and age groups, but the latest data from the International Labor Organization (ILO) reveal that…
