The most unemployment benefit application ever… Employment insurance growth is the lowest
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The situation in which the job crisis due to the prolonged COVID-19 outbreak is intensifying is continuously confirmed in the employment indicators.
Last month, the number of claimants for unemployment benefits surpassed 200,000 for the first time ever.
Reporter Bang Joon-hyuk on the report.
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212,000 people applied for unemployment benefits last month.
It has doubled in a month, and the number of applications after unemployment benefits is the highest ever.
By field, public administration and business service took up the largest proportion, followed by manufacturing.
Above all, this can be attributed to the impact of the end of most of the government and local government jobs projects at the end of last year.
Conversely, the increase in employment insurance subscribers has slowed significantly.
The number of employment insurance subscribers last month was 1,3835,000, which was only 151,000 compared to the same period last year.
In terms of growth alone, it is the lowest level in 17 years since 2004.
Unemployment is growing faster than ever, and the number of new hires has given way.
The overall slowdown was led by the face-to-face service industry, which was hit directly by social distancing.
The number of lodging and food service subscribers has dropped sharply, and the business service industry, including the travel industry, and the arts and sports industry were also shocked.
“In this case of the third spread, not only is the period for the longest, but we are also implementing the strongest social distancing to prevent this. This has also caused the greatest damage to the economy…”
On the other hand, in the non-face-to-face service sector where demand increased due to’social distancing’, employment insurance subscribers also increased significantly.
This is Yonhap News TV Bang Joon-hyuk. ([email protected])
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