Unemployment stable at lowest end of EU scale
Malta's unemployment rate in June remained unchanged when compared to the previous month and the island has kept its positive ranking at the lowest end of the EU scale when it comes to people seeking employment.
New data issued by Eurostat this morning shows that Malta's unemployment rate last June stood at 6.2 per cent, the same as the rate registered in May and ,lower than the 6.9 per cent reached in June 2010.
In June, Malta had the fifth lowest unemployment rate among the EU's 27 member state and with a much lower rate that the average in the Euro area – which in June stood at 9.9 per cent, unchanged from May.
The lowest unemployment rate in the EU in June was registered by Austria (4 per cent) followed by the Netherlands (4.1 per cent). In the other hand, Spain, whose government has just announced early elections, topped the EU's unemployment scale in June, reaching 21 per cent.
Significantly, Germany, considered to be the EU's economic motor, has managed to slash its unemployment rate by a full 1 per cent in the last 12 months, indicating that the EU's economy is back on course of a string growth path.
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Mr mario aquilina
Aug 2nd 2011, 00:27
How can one have a comfortable life on 194 euros per week!
Thats what one gets, before deductions, for 45 hours work as a bus driver with Arriva. Some of these drivers left from their traffic warden and security guard jobs, just to mention a few, to improve their wages. Is another extra 10 euros worth changing your job for! It looks like it is, with life being so expensive.
Are we living or surviving?
Michael Seychell
Aug 2nd 2011, 17:15
I tend to agree with you - however it seems that there are experts out there who thinks different from us.
According to reports in this paper the majority of drivers had joined the GWU and the drivers' conditions of work - presumably including the wages since these are the basic element of workers conditions,
- were agreed between Arriva and the GWU!
Michael Seychell
Tal-Pieta
George Azzopardi
Aug 1st 2011, 21:39
as many know many jobs are part-time with low wages and definite contracts .. some of which being monthly contracts. Even major banks today are employing people this way. Shame to our current government who is flattering himself with these statistics where in reality the job situation is much different. This shows how PN politics is cut off from everyday life of the normal citizen!
Mr Peter Korsten
Aug 1st 2011, 19:06
Fewer people work and make money in Malta, percentage-wise, than in any other EU country. We're at the very bottom. It's called Labour Participation; look it up. It gets even worse for people between 50 and 65; we're still at the bottom, but even more so than for the overall figure.
I'm thankful to the ToM that they changed the headline of 'deficit is down' (which gets the government supporters out in a carcade) to 'government debt up 8%'. Same news, different message.
In this respect, the low unemployment figure belies the fact that almost 50% of the population does not hold a job. Just over half the population has to provide for the other half.
Who thinks that this supposedly low unemployment figure is anything to celebrate, or something to criticise the opposition, should do well to retract his head from the sand.
Mr Stephen Borg
Aug 1st 2011, 17:49
For all those which are boasting with the news. Is a job with a 600Euro to a 900Euro wage called a sustainable job for you. Are all the people which have a part time job as their main job considered as having a sustainable job. In this counrty the government puts up a nice facade but beyond the facade it is all cracked and rotten and easilly toppled over. Nor Lawrence Gonzi and neighter Joseph Muscat will find a sollution because we have advertized our counrty as a cheap labour one and if we increase wages for us to have a decent living all these companies will pull out and leave a big vacuum in their wake. This is the Maltese economy we boast so much about, one small tremmor and it will all fall down like what happened in Greece.
Mr Leonard Brincat
Aug 1st 2011, 15:33
Nahseb li tal lejber qedin jiktbu ghax ghola il petrol jew ghax ha ikkeccu 511 mill airmalta, jew ghax l-arriva ma wasslet qatt jew ghax tal PN il ministri hadu 500 u lilna tawna 1.16,jew ghax ha jerga jghola id dawl.. Tant qed issawwatna dan il gvern li lanqas cans nirrispondu kollox ma ikkolna
Mr J Busuttil
Aug 1st 2011, 15:22
@ Camilleri, Brincat, Laiviera, Fenech etc, etc, etc, etc calling.
Come on awaiting your comment and that of the PL
Ms Sandra Cachia
Aug 1st 2011, 18:30
What about MR. GELLEL ?
Mr Antoine Vella
Aug 1st 2011, 15:11
Bad news for Labour.
Gianninu Saliba
Aug 1st 2011, 14:26
None of the Maltese socialists have any comments when it comes to things associated to our country's economy. .. and that includes their beloved Joseph. Unemployment drops, number of people employed increases, tourism grows by 12% on the record year, the economy grows, and yet Labour has nothing to say.
Mr Steve Zammit
Aug 1st 2011, 12:35
Fejn huma il kummenti banali issa??
Mr George Calleja
Aug 1st 2011, 12:21
Do you remember every month 'l-Orizzont' used to splash a headline " Il-Qghad rega ghola b'....' Now that this is history there is no headline anymore!! They try to alienate their readers with fairy tales! The same goes to Super fairy tale One!! Despite the international crisis Malta has managed to be one of the best European nations when it comes to unemployment
MaryJo Camenzuli
Aug 1st 2011, 12:13
Low unemployment in Malta amidst crises elsewhere.
But Joseph Muscat wants Edgar Galea Curmi to resign
li ma jmorrux in-nies jitkellmu fuq
the real substantial success of the government in what really matters: JOBS.
.
Mr Tony Camilleri
Aug 1st 2011, 12:21
MaryJo Camenzuli part-time precarious jobs are no security.
Try getting a bank loan when you are not a full-time employee.
If GONEZI is such a success why not hold an early election to strengthen his one-seat majority?
Mr Joseph E Briffa
Aug 1st 2011, 13:45
JM as usual is clutching at straws......He hasn't got anything to talk about, so he turns his attention to trivialities. He's got to say something after all - even if it is of no consequence to anybody - otherwise people will forget he exists.
Mr Peter Korsten
Aug 1st 2011, 13:48
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Malta has a low percentage of people REGISTERING for work. That's not the same as many jobs available. In fact, Malta has the lowest percentage of people working in the entire EU, and of those that hold a job, a sizeable part is in the public sector.
Could you please explain how this coukd ever be considered a 'success'?
Mr charles vella
Aug 1st 2011, 14:11
...you forgot the high investment from other countries who are setting up their business on our islands, and that our country, THANKS to the EU and it's funds, is changing into a beatiful first world country with developments in infrastructure happening every where...
Heh... and yesterday I read from a Lejber supporter that he is urging people to go out in the streets and do like the greeks... (break everything) ...to that person I say, thank YOU for reminding me of what the MLP WAS AND STILL IS.
U dan bil pajjiz sejjer tajjeb, AHSEB u ara kieku pajjiz sejjer hazin bhal Grecja, Portugal u Spanja!
Mr George Calleja
Aug 1st 2011, 15:48
Dawn ta hawn taht kollha 'uccelli del malawgurju' Ma jahmlux jaraw u jisimghu l-ahbarijiet tajba. Dejjem imaqdru...imma nafu li min imaqdar irid jixtri. Dawn Super One biss jaraw u ma jitghallmu qatt! Dejjem hekk kienu ..u hekk jibqghu!!
Mr Mark Demicoli
Aug 1st 2011, 16:12
@George Calleja
Int donnok NET biss tara imma ta "Uccell tal-awgurju tajjeb". Hemm ghalfej tara Super One, bizzejjed thares lej il-kontijiet li jaslu fl-ahhar tax-xahar, jew lej il-pompa tal-petrol, jew lej il-payslip fl-ahhar tax-xahar, inhallsu, inhallsu, inhallsu u inkomplu inhallsu ghax "uccelli tal-malawgurju" u naraw kollox hazin hux hekk. Li it-tifel tieghi studja ITS, gab ic-certifikati, kien ilu jahdem ghal 11-il sena, ghalaq dan il-post u issa ilu kwazi sena ma jista jsib xoghol imkien ghax kulhadd jrid jhallas bic-cicri bil-4 euros/hr minimum wage (ghidli naqa kif jista jkun tghix b'dik il-paga!) mux veru mela, qed noholmu, le anzi qed niggennu ghax naraw super one biss!
u hallina tridux, min hu komdu ma jhossx it-tbatija li ghawn, intom ma tissawtux, intom tivvutawlu u taraw nies ohra jissawtu!