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More people have started work than have registered as unemployed during first week of June

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Around 700 more people have started work compared to the number of newly registered unemployed at job centres, show latest data of the National Statistical Institute and the Employment Agency which monitored the labour market because of Covid-19. The data are from the first week of June and apply to the entire territory of the country. 

6,427 is the number of people who have started work, 5,691 have lost their job. 110,500 have found a job since the start of the year, 131,200 have lost their job.

Traditionally the biggest number of job openings at the beginning of the summer season are for cooks, chambermaids, waiters, reception clerks and lifeguards. 



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