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Employment Seen Falling Across the Board
Wednesday 14 April 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, April 14 (TASR) - Employment in Slovakia dropped in all measured sectors year-on-year in February, with wholesale trade recording as much as a 20-percent fall in its working population, the Slovak Statistics Office said on Wednesday.
Other sectors saw the following decreases for the month of February: restaurant and catering activities - 13.3 percent; IT and telecoms activities - 13 percent; and manufacturing and accommodation - 12 percent.
In the first two months, the country's employment fell on an annual basis in wholesale by close to 20 percent and in manufacturing by 13.5 percent.
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