Continuing with the trend of recovery and reactivation of the labor market, the latest Employment report for the January-March 2024 quarter from the National Institute of Statistics, INE, the region registered an Unemployment Rate of 6.4%, decreasing 1.8 percentage points (pp. ) in twelve months, in addition, was lower than that registered at the national level (8.7%).
In addition, the bulletin indicated that the Occupancy Rate was 59.7%, ranking as the fourth highest nationally..
The Seremi of Labor and Social Security, Ignacio Prieto, stated that “in one year more than two thousand jobs were created in the region and the number of formal employees reached 110,171 “a figure that has been constantly increasing.”
He added that “we also want to increase female labor participation, promote gender equality, make our work life compatible with our family life, generating the necessary conditions so that women can reconcile these two areas, without being forced to have to choose any of them. This will improve the working conditions of women and, at the same time, ensure that they can access the same conditions and benefits as men.”
Informality
For the authority of the Labor portfolio “all these figures also represent a challenge and invite us to continue working in promoting Decent Workincrease inspection coverage and promote fair labor relations with a gender perspective.”
Prieto expressed that “one of the needs and challenges for the region is to work with labor informality, which although it was reduced by 1.2% It stood at 32.7%, placing us in eighth position nationally.”
Among the measures proposed by the Government include reducing informality through sanctions and controls on informal activity and incentives and facilities to formalize companies, which reflects the intention to improve this situation for the people of the country and our region.
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