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This was due to several reasons: closed cafes and restaurants, suspended travel, entertainment, as well as additional state benefits during the pandemic.
Milda Jankauskienė, spokesperson for the Employment Service (OCT), also notices these trends: “The unemployed are interested in the quality of the workplace, and in working conditions, the environment and wages. Uncompetitive wages do not encourage acceptance of job offers. “
Not even additional conditions are tempting
According to M. Jankauskienė, according to OCT data, registered unemployment in Kėdainiai district is decreasing, but compared to the previous year, it is much higher. July 1 registered unemployment in Kėdainiai district was 15.2%, on June 1 – sixteen and a half percent. At that time, in July of last year, it stood at twelve and a half percent, and in the same period of 2019, only 8.6 percent.
“The demand for labor is quite high both in the country and in the Kėdainiai district. According to the vacancy record in Šiauliai customer service department, Kėdainiai ranks second, Šiauliai city ranks first.
In Kėdainiai district, 552 vacancies were registered in May (47 of them for fixed-term jobs) and 351 in June (45 of them for fixed-term jobs). July 1 276 vacancies, – said a representative of the service. – Several employers from the surrounding cities, especially from Kaunas, apply to the Kėdainiai customer service department. Employers offer additional benefits to potential employees, such as transportation. “
I am not interested in work
According to M. Jankauskienė, 767 residents of Kėdainiai received a job search benefit in the first half of this year. Social security unemployment benefit, which is granted and paid by Sodra, is provisionally received by around 460 unemployed each month.
“Unemployed people receive benefits only if they have worked, have the required time of service and the salary was high: the social security unemployment benefit (NSDI) for 9 months. Sodra pays, emphasized the interlocutor. – If the salary offered is less than this benefit, the person refuses to work and continues to look for work. People who have not worked anywhere can only receive a small social benefit, but perhaps they receive child benefits and potentially work illegally and therefore Therefore, they stop working.
On the other hand, the unemployed are interested in the quality of the workplace, in terms of working conditions, environment and wages. Uncompetitive wages do not encourage acceptance of job offers. “
As the spokesperson said, it is noted that many job seekers are not able to find activities that meet expectations and profession, but there are a number of clients who are not eligible for any job offer.
Although the job market is recovering, people’s behavior is changing during a pandemic. You often ignore new opportunities and find reasons and excuses not to work.
“The job that is currently offered is more valuable than any benefits, because tomorrow it may not be available at all. The job is not only a stable and official income, but also an opportunity to continue learning and compete in an environment that will be every more difficult in the future, the specialist predicted. – The longer a person does not have a job, the more difficult it is to find it in general. Loss of job skills, loss of skills and the resulting psychological or addictive problems contribute to long-term unemployment duration and a person is trapped in poverty. Families are observed in Lithuania, where unemployment from parents is transmitted to children, especially in the regions of the country. “
One third of the unemployed have no education or qualifications.
As M. Jankauskienė pointed out, due to robotization, digitization and other phenomena of the industrial revolution, some professions are gradually disappearing.
“Data on the structure of employment by occupation shows that last year the number of employees in the service sector and managers, sales of unskilled workers decreased more.
Half – 109,7 thousand. The number of registered vacancies was 16.7% for skilled workers, specialists and managers, 10.3% for service workers and vendors, and 23.1% for unskilled workers. of all registered vacancies ”, detailed the interviewee.
According to her, the analysis of people who receive a job search subsidy showed that about a third (30%) of unemployed people have low qualifications and have no vocational education. However, 5-10% also received job search benefits during different periods. clients with higher education.
“During the period of the pandemic, that is, from June 2020 to now, about 15 percent. Kėdainiai residents with unemployment status registered for the first time, as were students. This may have been influenced by changes in the legal basis: young people who study and register in the OCTs receive unemployed status and those with the required duration of social security receive a social insurance benefit for unemployment.
In the past, young people have been granted apprenticeship status. Previously unemployed people, for whom it was important to receive job search benefits, also applied, ”said M. Jankauskienė.
Seasonal work is not tempting
Regarding seasonal jobs, a service representative said that in the first half of this year, employers registered 269 fixed-term vacancies and employed 213 people from Kėdainiai. There were slightly fewer job offers for fixed-term jobs in 2020. In the first half of the year, 214 and 131 job seekers from Kėdainiai received help finding employment through the Employment Service.
“During the first half of this year, there were about 26 people temporarily employed in the district on seasonal employment contracts.
In most cases, employers employ people for seasonal jobs with fixed-term contracts, explained the interlocutor. – In the Kėdainiai region, temporary jobs are offered both in ice cream production and in the canning factory. Farmers need workers for planting, caring for plants, harvesting, etc., but working with service vouchers is not tempting. “
The time is approaching when the supply of seasonal jobs will decline. Therefore, after asking what kind of incapacity for work the OCT promises to the Kėdainiai region at that time, M. Jankauskienė said: “It is not only seasonality that affects the decrease in registered unemployment. The idle activities during the quarantine this spring also had an impact, and the demand for labor grew in all sectors of the economy, especially service companies, whose employees were in downtime, were able to switch to intensive activities.
In June, employers registered 60.6 thousand employees in the information system of the Employment Service. vacancies, in May the demand for labor also reached 54 thousand. 351 vacancies were registered in Kėdainiai district in June and 552 in May.
It is still difficult to assess what will be the unemployment registered in the fall and the cold period due to the situation of the pandemic. The demand for labor in construction, agriculture, and services is generally declining across the country at that time.
The viability of the labor market, especially the provision of contact services during the quarantine period, has depended, as we have seen, on the scale and limitations of the pandemic, so it all depends on how much the country’s population will be immune to it. COVID. -19 and the situation in the country “.
The students also had the opportunity to get a job.
In the information system of the employment service, employers record vacancies that are not segregated by age group, such as only young people. Most of the job offers presented are of a general nature, they are not aimed at students, pupils or other groups of people, but, according to the service representative, employers who want to welcome young students have the opportunity to indicate that the vacancy it is for a student. or student.
“Employers registered 423 jobs in June, indicating that they could also hire a student. There were 5 job openings in Kėdainiai district, where it was noted as suitable for schoolchildren and students.
However, there were no busy students, said the specialist, considering that the reason could be the following: “Not all job seekers register with the Employment Service. They can contact the JDC centers in 45 countries (Youth Employment Units of the Customer Service Departments of the Employment Service), where they can obtain information and advice services and find out about vacancies free of charge and without registering with the Employment Service.
There is also a Youth Work Center in Kėdainiai, J. Basanavičiaus str. 18, [email protected]“.
According to the OCTs, on July 1. Registered unemployment in the country was 12.9 per cent, in Kėdainiai district 15.2 per cent. In Kaunas County, Kėdainiai District ranked second after Jonava District in terms of registered unemployment rate. (15.7%).
The average unemployment in Kaunas County is 13.4 percent.
Author of the article: Rasa JAKUBAUSKIENĖ.
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