There are four independent job centers in the district of the Karlsruhe-Rastatt Employment Agency: in the city of Karlsruhe, the district of Karlsruhe, the district of Rastatt and the city of Baden-Baden. They provide education, offer support for addiction prevention, for example, and work closely with local authorities. “The job centers fight poverty,” explains Ingo Zenkner, managing director of Agentur ffor work Karlsruhe-Rastatt. Anyone who slips into the basic security will be looked after in the job center. The agency manages that Unemployment and short-time work money. “The crisis therefore first takes place in the agency,” said Zenkner.
In 2020, a peak of 87,462 people in 7,661 companies were on short-time work. That is 18.8 percent of all employees, reports the Karlsruhe-Rastatt Employment Agency for their district. The number of unemployed is up from 18,584 people in November 2019 compared to the previous year 25,113 in November 2020. This year’s high was in August 27,409 unemployed. S.e since the beginning of the year, 30.2 percent fewer jobs have been reported.
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