Easter hits formal employment and temporary places are canceled: IMSS


The formal employment in the country it did not have its best April, barely 5,490 jobs were achieved, which without considering 2020 when the pandemicis the lowest figure in a decade, reported the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).

It should be noted that temporary employment —hiring for specific periods— had a destruction of 14,669 jobs in the fourth month of the year, which caused the generation of permanent employment (20,159) to be insufficient to achieve a greater creation of jobs.

However, the IMSS He explained that it maintains a record of 21 million 11,342 jobs, of which 86% are permanent and 13.3% are temporary.

According to the IMSS analysis, this behavior was due to the fact that “traditionally, in the months when the Holy Week there is less job creation.

In the last twelve months, a creation of 940,859 jobs has been observed, equivalent to an annual rate of 4.7 percent. “The increase of 940,000 positions is the third highest variation in the entire history of the Institute. On the other hand, between April 2021 and 2022, 1,024,276 permanent positions were created. This is the third highest variation since there is a record.”

The economic sectors with the highest annual percentage growth in jobs are transport and communications with 11.7%, construction with 6.1% and transformation with 5.7 percent.

By state entity, they stand out Quintana Roo, Tabasco Y Baja California Sur with annual increases above 16.0%; but there are states like Michoacan, Sinaloa Y oaxaca barely reaching one percent.



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