This is one of the strongest employment rates on the old continent.
The unemployment rate in Switzerland fell to 2.2% in 2022, against 3% the previous year, returning to its lowest level in more than twenty years against a background of staff shortages, announced on Monday the Ministry of Economy.
Recruitment difficulties for companies have steadily increased in 2022 and have extended to unqualified staff, the Swiss Ministry of the Economy said in a press release.
It is necessary to go back to 2001 to find a lower level of unemployment, he specifies.
The unemployment rate was then 1.7%, before 2.5% in 2002. 'Economy.
“Position yourself as an attractive employer”
In December, the unemployment rate rose slightly for the second month in a row, while remaining at a historically low level.
It rose to 2.1%, with 96,941 registered, against 2% in November after reaching its annual low point in September and October at 1.9%.
“Companies will however have to continue to fight to position themselves as an attractive employer”, warns the Ministry of the Economy as the year 2022 was characterized by “a growing scarcity of labor supply. work," he says.
In 2020, the unemployment rate in Switzerland had risen sharply with the economic shock of the Covid-19 pandemic to climb to 3.7% but had started to fall from the start of 2021. The unemployment rate in Switzerland had started l year to 2022 at 2.7% and then declined month after month until falling to 1.9% in September and October.
In mid-December, the Ministry of the Economy said it expected a very slight rise in unemployment in 2023, to 2.3% over the whole year.
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