Slovenian companies expect that a total of 7,328 workers would lose their jobs either because of sacking or because companies would go bankrupt in 2006, 60.1% of which will be made redundant in manufacturing, shows a survey of the Slovenian Employment Service.
As many as 996 workers are expected to be laid off by electrical and optical manufacturers, 897 in the textile and leather industry, 611 in the paper industry and publishing, and 537 in the food-, drink- and tobacco-processing industries.
These are followed by trade (759) and construction (636), while 287 redundant workers are expected in transport, warehouses and communications.
The sector of services expects to lose 1,864 jobs (25.4% of all lost jobs this year), with 279 workers to be laid off in agriculture, hunting and forestry, 265 in education, and 256 in the real estate sector and business services.
Most of the workers to be made redundant, 36.8%, are those with third or fourth level of education. Moreover, pink slips are to be handed to 34% workers with first or second, 21.2% of those with fifth, and 8% of those with sixth level of education.
The survey, which is carried out every year by the Employment Service, included 6,866 companies that employ a total of 552,000 persons or 90% of all workers employed in such facilities.
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