Agência Brasil*
Brasília – From January until September this year, 1.607 million formal job positions were created in Brazil. The number of hirings is second only to the figure recorded in the same period of 2004, which was 1.666 million.
The information was taken from the report of the General Records Office for Employment and Unemployment (Caged), disclosed yesterday (15th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Labour.
In September, 251,168 jobs were generated, the highest number of hirings ever recorded in the month of September since the Caged historical series was initiated, in 1992.
The number of new job positions in the processing industry also reached a record high for the month of September, at 112,114 jobs. The services sector opened 73,054 new jobs, and the trade sector, 50,352.
The minister of Labour, Carlos Lupi, ascribed the good performance in the creation of new job positions to the good performance of Brazilian economy, especially in the industry sector. He claimed that the incentive measures adopted by the government, both for the industry and for consumers, as well as the credit supply, have contributed too. The monetary policy, with the reduction of the basic interest rate, also helped the industry to invest more, said Lupi.
Also according to the Caged, the greatest growth took place in the Northeast region, where the opening of new job positions increased by 2%. The highlights were the states of Alagoas, which recorded a 12.58% in hirings, and Pernambuco, at 2.77%. In both cases, the foodstuff industry was the main contributing factor to the performance.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
