📋 Tender Overview
Last August formal employment only in the private sector grew 7.9 compared to the same month last year with which 17 months of positive progress were accumulated and 3 million 967 thousand jobs were accumulated assured the Minister of Labor and Employment Promotion Alejandro Salas Zegarra.He explained that the positive result is mainly due to the favorable performance of companies with 11 to 100 workers which registered an advance of 9.3 and generated 74 thousand jobs compared to August last year. Meanwhile in companies with 101 or more workers growth was 7.8 and in those with 1 to 10 workers 6.7 respectively.Based on the results registered in the Electronic Form of the MTPE Minister Salas Zegarra referred that the services category supported the growth of employment in August with an expansion of 10.7 which also meant 193 thousand additional jobs.The dynamisms in the branches of commerce 6.4 mining and quarrying 5.6 manufacturing 5.3 as well as agriculture and fishing 2.4 also stood out.In this regard Minister Salas Zegarra highlighted that the increase in employment was also based on the positive results August 2022 vs. August 2021 registered in 24 regions - includes Metropolitan Lima and Lima Provinces - where Pasco 17 .2 Cusco 14.1 Madre de Dios 13.5 and Ucayali 12.9 among others. In August employment in women and men grew 11.3 and 6.1 respectively. Meanwhile in the analysis by age people up to 29 years old registered an increase of 7.8 and those aged 30 years and over 8.0 according to data from the Electronic Form of the MTPE.
