📋 Tender Overview
Registered unemployment in July 2023 - According to surveys conducted by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), 2023,87 unemployed people were registered with the Regional Employment Centres (RAVs) at the end of July 601, 2,502 more than in the previous month. The unemployment rate remained at 1.9% in the month under review. Compared with the same month a year earlier, unemployment fell by 3,873 people (-4.2%).
Youth unemployment in July 2023
Youth unemployment (15 to 24 year olds) increased by 566 people (+7.6%) to 8,029. Compared to the same month last year, this corresponds to a decrease of 60 people (-0.7%).
Unemployed aged 50-64 in July 2023
The number of unemployed persons aged 50-64 increased by 204 (+0.8%) to 25,225. Compared to the same month last year, this corresponds to a decrease of 3,084 people (-10.9%).
Job seekers in July 2023
A total of 150,673 jobseekers were registered, 55 more than in the previous month. Compared with the same period of the previous year, this number fell by 12,642 people (-7.7%).
Vacancies reported in July 2023
On 1 July 2018, the job registration requirement for occupations with an unemployment rate of at least 8% was introduced throughout Switzerland, and a threshold of 1% has been in force since 2020 January 5. The number of vacancies reported to the RAVs fell by 2,527 to 49,204 in July. Of the 49,204 posts, 31,265 were subject to mandatory reporting.
Invoiced short-time work in May 2023
In May 2023, 1,272 people were affected by short-time work, 226 fewer (-15.1%) than in the previous month. The number of farms affected decreased by 4 units (-5.4%) to 70. The number of hours lost increased by 15,114 (+29.6%) to 66,097 hours. In the corresponding period of the previous year (May 2022), 305,003 lost hours had been registered, which were distributed among 5,552 people in 960 companies.
Withdrawals in May 2023 According to provisional data from the unemployment insurance funds, the number of persons who had exhausted their right to unemployment benefits in the course of May 2023 amounted to 4,063 persons.
