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  • Korea’s jobless rate rises in September

    Korea’s jobless rate rises in September

    South Korea’s jobless rate rose slightly in September due to a fall in employment in the retail and restaurant sectors, with poorer-than-expected job creation continuing, government data showed Friday.

    The unemployment rate stood at 3.6 percent last month, up 0.3 percentage point from a year earlier, marking the highest rate for September since September 2005, according to the report compiled by Statistics Korea.

    The number of employed people reached 27.05 million in September, up 45,000 from the same month in 2017, according to the data.

    The unemployment rate for young adults — those aged between 15 and 29 — was 8.8 percent, down 0.4 percentage point from the previous year.

    The employment rate stood at 66.8 percent in September, down 0.1 percentage point from a year earlier, with the corresponding figure for young people at 42.9 percent, up 0.7 percentage point over the cited period.

    The number of newly added jobs improved last month, after staying below 10,000 per month for the second straight month. The retail segment saw a reduction of 100,000 jobs in September compared with a year earlier, and the lodging and restaurant sector also shed 86,000 jobs last month.

    The manufacturing sector also saw the reduction of 42,000 jobs last month.

    In contrast, the healthcare and IT sectors added 133,000 and 73,000 jobs, respectively.

    “A slowdown in the reduction of jobs in the manufacturing sector helped boost job additions, but any sharp rise in job creation is unlikely for the time being,” an official at the statistics agency said.

    The number of unemployed reached 1.02 million in September, hovering over the 1-million mark for the ninth straight month.

    In June, the government cut its job creation target to 180,000 this year from 320,000.

    Since May, the government has been implementing a 3.9 trillion-won ($3.69 billion) extra budget largely to create jobs.

    The push comes as President Moon Jae-in has called for all-out efforts to create quality jobs.

    The supplementary budget is the second of its kind under the Moon administration. Last year, the government set aside an 11 trillion-won supplementary budget that focused on creating high quality jobs.

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  • Ministry tells Indonesian airliners to hire 900 jobless local pilots

    Ministry tells Indonesian airliners to hire 900 jobless local pilots

    The Transportation Ministry has said as over 900 Indonesian pilots having not been able to gain employment with local airliners, the ministry is planning to impose a new obligation to ensure higher absorption of local pilots by the airline industry.

    “This is a big problem. At least 900 local pilots have no jobs. This will be our homework, to create opportunities for them,” Transportation Minister Budi Karya Sumadi said on the sidelines of the Air Transportation Safety Campaign at the ministry’s office on Sunday.

    Budi said his ministry would require local airliners to employ local pilots, while promising that the ministry would also help improve the competence of the pilots through further training.

    “There has to be an obligation for local airliners to take on local pilots,” he added.

    In addition, the ministry would give impose stricter requirements to foreign pilots working at local airliners.

    “We should impose certain requirements for foreign pilots working in Indonesia,” he added.

    Reportedly, 564 foreign pilots are currently working in the country.

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  • Korea’s jobless rate stays pat at 3.1% in November

    Korea’s jobless rate stays pat at 3.1% in November

    South Korea’s unemployment rate stayed pat in November compared with the month before as gains in the manufacturing and hospitality sectors were offset by losses in the agrofisheries and retail segments, a government report showed Wednesday.

    According to the report by Statistics Korea, the rate stood at 3.1 percent last month, unchanged from October and the year before. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for last month reached 3.4 percent, also flat from the 3.4 percent figure tallied for the previous month. The number of newly created jobs, however, dropped to 285,000 last month, from 348,000 new positions offered in October.

    “Manufacturing continued to fuel growth, along with the hospitality sector, and communication and information technology services, but sharp losses in agrofisheries and to a lesser extent retail affected the job market last month,” said Sim Won-bo, head of the agency’s employment statistics division.

    He said agrofisheries shed 168,000 positions last month from 124,000 jobs lost the month before, while sluggish economic conditions hurt small-time retailer jobs in the country. The official said the loss in agrofisheries was mainly due to rainy weather.

    The manufacturing sector created 190,000 more jobs, with the hospitality sector and communication and information technology services adding a combined 182,000 positions.

    The unemployment rate for people between the ages of 15 and 29 reached 8.1 percent in November, up from the 7.4 percent reading a month earlier, which was the lowest level reported since May 2013.

    The statistical office said the jobless rate for young people usually goes up toward the end of the year as there is a rush to seek employment. The jobless rate among young people has always been higher than the national average.

    The latest report then showed the employment rate for people between 15 and 64, which is used by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development to measure employment, stood at 66.3 percent last month, up from 66.2 percent the month before.

    The so-called labor underutilization indicator dipped to 10.3 percent last month from 10.5 percent in October, according to the report.

    The indicator is based on guidelines made by the International Labor Organization and reflects the number of people who are underemployed and those who currently hold part-time jobs but want full-time work. It also counts unemployed people who have given up looking for work not by choice but due to other circumstances.

    The finance ministry said unseasonable weather conditions adversely affected jobs created last month. “The amount of rainfall directly impacted hiring in certain sectors,” it said. “If agrofisheries are not calculated, more than 400,000 jobs were created.” Total precipitation hit 127.8 millimeters, the second highest reading since November 1973.

    The ministry added that while the jobless rate for young people rose, the employment rate edged up 1 percentage point on-year to 41.8 percent, which is a positive development. For the future, it said exports may remain weak but a rise in domestic demand will help create new positions in the coming months.

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