Full-time employment increased by nearly three per cent in September, when compared to the same month in 2012.
The number of registered unemployed increased by 750 during the same period.
According to Employment and Training Corporation statistics, in September 2013, full-time employment increased by 2.8 per cent when compared to the corresponding month in 2012. This same data shows that, over a year, the labour supply increased by 3.2 per cent, reaching 165,303.
This was mainly attributed to an increase of 4,342 in the full-time gainfully occupied population and an increase of 750 in registered unemployment.
In the month under review, the administrative and support services activities and the education sector increased by 12.4 per cent and six per cent respectively.
Increases in full-time employment within the private sector were also recorded in the administrative and support services activities.
Within the public sector, a shift in employment was registered from construction to public administration and defence.
Part-time employment went up by 5.1 per cent compared to September 2012, while wholesale and retail, repair of motor vehicles and public administration and defence, and compulsory social security had major increases.
The number of part-timers with a full-time job increased by 4.2 per cent. The number of employed people whose part-time job was their primary occupation amounted to 33,774, up 5.8 per cent.
The Nationalist Party noted that the rate of job creation was not keeping up with the increase in people looking for employment.
The number of people looking for a job increased by 750 – or 11 per cent, it said.
A quarter of the new jobs created fell under the public sector.
The manufacturing sector kept deteriorating, with Eurostat figures showing Malta had the largest decrease (more than seven per cent) in industrial production.