📋 Tender Overview
The recent Quarterly Labor Market Report prepared by the Ministry of Labor and Employment Promotion MTPE which shows indicators of the national employed EAP based on quarterly data from INEI labor force surveys as well as information declared by the companies in the monthly electronic payroll reveals that the jobs registered in the telework remote work modality grew exponentially by around 220 thousand in December 2020 compared to the same month of 2019.According to the aforementioned report according to the level of economic activity the services sector concentrated about 80 of all workers in a special telework situation. This could be associated with the greater ease of this sector in adapting its operations to the virtual context. It is followed by commerce and manufacturing industry.By occupation statistical and financial services employees accounted for the largest number of teleworkers as of December 2020. They are closely followed by administrative services employees and university professors.Occupations most and least in demand in 2020The report also shows the occupations that had the greatest increases in 2020 compared to the previous year highlighting those of agricultural laborers 17 telecommunications operators 12 electricians 8 farmers 6 nursing staff 4 and food manufacturers 4.While occupations such as bartenders -39 technical sales agents -12 and retailers -12 registered the largest decrease in jobs during the past year.New requirementsAccording to the report in 2021 the most demanded permanent occupations would be agricultural fishing and forestry laborers wholesalers and retailers and protective services personnel.Also personnel will be prioritized for customer information services engineers computer developers financial technical staff technical personnel in physical and health sciences and others the latter due to the health emergency.Impact on the private formal sectorThe young and less qualified suffered the greatest job losses in the formal salaried sector at the beginning of the crisis but they have been recovering at higher rates.In April 2020 at the beginning of the health crisis caused by COVID-19 the national average monthly remuneration of formal employees increased to S 2733 12 compared to the same month the previous year. As of December 2020 the average remuneration was adjusted to S 2472 which implied an increase of 2.8 compared to the same month of the previous year. These results are due to a bias in the loss of jobs not to an increase in wages itself. This is how the wage bill of all formal workers does show a drop since the beginning of the health crisis.Similarly the drop in salaried employment in the private formal sector affected workers with a fixed-term contract to a greater extent during the first months of the crisis but these have been recovering at higher rates than those with indefinite-term contracts .On the other hand the report also highlights that in 2020 75.5 of those who had an indefinite contract kept it since 2019 thus characterizing their condition of stability. In contrast during the same period fixed-term jobs had a lower permanence 53 that is half of the fixed-term jobs in 2019 were not maintained in 2020.
