Formal job employment sluggish

Ipelegeng workers
Ipelegeng workers

The formal job creation in the country has been stagnant for the past years and 2018 seems to be no different despite a slight increase.

The formal employment has reportedly shown only an increase of 0.1 percent between December 2017 and March 2018, with only 363 persons employed from 410, 329 persons in December 2017 to 410,692 persons in March 2018.

According to the 2018 Formal Sector Employment Survey, the slight increase was led by private companies and parastatals recording the highest increase of 0.2 percent each, followed by central government with 0.1%, while local government encountered a decrease in employment of 0.2 percent.

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