All sectors hire with heated economy
Folha de S. Paulo
The fast pace of the recovery of the economic activity in the beginning of the year caused the balance of new formal jobs to get to February at 209,425 job positions, the best result ever for the second month of the year. For the first time, all sectors of the economy have more hires than terminations. and the industry, commerce and services have also broken the record for the period. With the need to replenish the stocks in time to keep up with the growth of the domestic consumption and the beginning of the recovery of the exports, the processing industry was responsible for the generation of 63,024 new registered jobs.
In spite of that, the 290,170 jobs created in the sector since 2009 are still far from recovering the 501,390 job positions terminated at the peak of the crisis. "The industry will have its best year in history. There is recovery in the whole productive chain and the foreign sales have started to recover, mainly in the textile and footwear industries", affirmed Minister Carlos Lupi (Labor). In February there was the second biggest number of hires of the series of the Caged (General Record of Employed and Unemployed People), with 1.526 million generated jobs. The number of layoffs, on its turn, remained at 1,316 million in the month.
Besides the industry, the service sector also registered good performance, favored by Carnival and the summer vacations. Only the hotel and food segment had a balance of 17,738 jobs in the month. Similarly, commerce absorbed 10,682 new workers in the period. The spread of the increase of the number of jobs in the economy also took place on a geographical basis. For the first time, all regions of the country registered increase in the month of February. There was a record in the number of jobs in 13 of the 27 States.
Anselmo Luiz dos Santos, professor of the Center of Labor Union Studies and of Labor Economics of the Unicamp (State University of Campinas), evaluates that the result of February was already expected in view of the most recent data of industrial production and of the sales in the retail. "The economy is resuming the dynamism of 2008, of the period before the crisis. The evolution of employment is consistent with such growth", he believes. According to him, however, the pace of the growth of the employment tends to get accommodated as of the second quarter, even if at high rates of increase.