Economy “In February, the unemployment rate fell 0.1 percentage points to 2.8% of the working population in the canton of Friborg. At the Swiss level, the average is 2.5%, also down 0.1 point. If unemployment remained stable in Broye (2.6%), it fell by 0.2 point in Sarine (3.4%) and by 0.1 point in Gruyère (3.0%), in Glâne ( 2.9%), in Singine (1.6%), Veveyse (3.3%) and Lac (2.2%), details the Public Employment Service.
At the end of February, the canton registered 8,132 job seekers, 239 less compared to January and 141 compared to February 2019.
During the month of February, four requests for reduced working hours (RHT) were processed by the Public Employment Service. At the end of February, six companies were granted RHT authorization. TG
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