The government said on Monday the more positive side of unemployment figures. This after the INE have revealed that the unemployment rate dropped to 13.2% in May , compared with the same month last year, but rose against the final estimate for April 12, 8%
The prime minister stressed that the values of May May “will still be revised” so preferred to focus on the figures for April. “It is good, of course, because it means that latest figure compares very well with a year ago.”
Passos Coelho, who was in Braga, in the renewal of the partnership between the University of Minho and Bosch, expressed the wish that employment associated with these numbers and “especially one who comes to check up on future, involving as much as possible less precarious and more skilled employment. If not acontrecer, growth will be limited in the future medium and long term, “he admitted.
The Minister of Employment, in turn, welcomed the reduction in the unemployment rate in Portugal since 2013, doing, however, a negative assessment to the figures provided by the INE face to April.
“The unemployment figures over the last year are good, when we compare the decline in unemployment over the last year, is positive,” said Pedro Mota Soares.
“It behooves us to remember that we are talking about since the beginning of 2013 until today a reduction of about 230 000 people who left an unemployment situation, when we looked at last month (April) the data is not positive, “he said.
Pedro Mota Soares was speaking to journalists in the village of Careers in the municipality of Portalegre, on the sidelines of the inauguration of a nursing home that had an investment of EUR 1.9 million, creating about 30 work stations.
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