Labor Market: 38 707 Job Seekers For 2,433 Vacancies

Of those who registered as unemployed, there are 5,057 men and 14,117 women. The situation is almost alarming if we add to this list those who have certainly a job but are actively seeking a new professional adventure. Thus, the handset, the number of unemployed stood at 38,707, including 17,968 men and 20,739 women. These figures show a contraction of the labor market.

Clensy Appavou: "Downsizing is inevitable"

About the Clensy Appavou, president of the Mauritius Employers Federation (MEF), confirm the seriousness of the situation.

"The employment prospects are worrisome. That when we do feel the first effects of the euro crisis. It and will prepare for the worst in the coming months. For businesses affected by the crisis in the euro zone will have no choice but to reduce their operational costs. Already now, we're not in a position to recruit. They only shot of "rightsizing." But, given what is happening in Europe, we will, at some point this year, take tough decisions to ensure our survival. The "downsizing" is inevitable , "he said.

To make things worse, the International Labour Organization (ILO) provides a deepening crisis of world employment. "The world faces a considerable challenge in terms of employment and decent work deficits scale. This after three years of permanent crisis conditions and facing the prospect of a further deterioration of the activity economic. austerity policies adopted precisely to counter the crisis have already bleak prospects. Unemployment, accumulated globally, will therefore amount to 202 million people this year, 6 million more than the last year - an increase of 27 million since the beginning of the crisis ", ILO says in its latest employment report, stressing that economic growth would be insufficient to avoid such a situation.

Locally, the government is aware of this degradation, has outlined several measures in the keynote speech 2012-2015 to address this problem. Among, the establishment of a National Employment Resource Centre, the optimization of the National Youth Employment Programme, promoting green jobs, the launch of a cluster of jobs and help the sustainable development of small and medium enterprises . At this stage, these measures are only on paper.

Chômeurs enregistrés

Groupe d'âge - Nombre

16-19            1 739

20-29            7 528

30-39            6 112

+40              3 795   

Total             19 174