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Redundancies continue to rain down on Swedish workplaces
More than 6,000 people in Sweden were given notice last week that they would lose their jobs, setting the stage for January redundancy announcements to reach levels roughly four times greater than a year ago.
Published: 26 Jan 2009 15:29 CET
So far in January, 12,574 people have been given notice, a figure well above the total of 3,638 reached for the entire month of January 2008, according to new statistics from the public employment agency (Arbetsförmedlingen)
At the end of last week, 208,529 people were registered as unemployed with the agency.
This represents an increase of 2,310 in comparison with the previous week and 41,799 more than the corresponding week of 2008.
By the end of last week, a total of 199,359 people were registered as unemployed, an increase of 25,338 compared to the same period a year earlier.
The number of people on supported employment amounted to 75,293, an increase of 164 people compared to the previous week and a reduction of 14,420 compared to the same week last year.
There were also 85,852 people participating in employment support programmes, which represented an increase of 1,363 from the week before, and a rise of 24,261 compared to the corresponding week in 2008.
Last week, 13,642 new jobs were advertised with the agency, an increase of 1,620 from the previous week and 4,040 fewer than the corresponding week a year ago.
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Your Swedish Career
Unable to find good Mexican food after moving to Stockholm to study in 2008, Monterrey native David Licona now finds himself running La Neta, one of the most popular Mexican eateries in the Swedish capital. The Local finds out more.
The archive of our 'My Swedish Career' interviews with foreign-born professionals making a life and a career for themselves in Sweden.
Want more money? Want to learn how to convince your Swedish boss that you are indispensable? Sure, but make sure you do your homework first, explains union ombudsman Anna-Karin Mattsson.
Having thrown down the towel in Swedish class, new Stockholmer Paul Davies picked up a brush and razor to build His Swedish Career on trendy Swedish men's new-found love of a full beard.
What are the unwritten rules that foreigners should keep in mind while doing business in Sweden? Our latest JobTalk gives you the top ten tips for showing your colleagues you're on the ball when it comes to Swedish business etiquette.
John Taylor is perhaps best known as the man with the green thumbs and a slight English accent on a weekly gardening show on television. He tells The Local how he made a career out of "digging holes" in Sweden.
Swedish Employment News
One in four workers employed in Sweden's public sector last year was foreign-born, according to new statistics published on Tuesday, a figure experts claim reflect Sweden's own diversifying society.
The unemployment figures for Sweden rose to 8.8 percent last month, with almost 450,000 Swedes without a job across the country, according to new statistics released on Tuesday.
John Taylor is perhaps best known as the man with the green thumbs and a slight English accent on a weekly gardening show on television. He tells The Local how he made a career out of "digging holes" in Sweden.
Swedish citizens are the most pampered in the world, according to a new rating that measures non-economic needs and aims to replace GDP as a well-being indicator.
Researchers have found that job applicants with Swedish sounding names are 50 percent more likely to be called back for an interview than people with Arabic names, based on a randomly generated experiment with CV and cover letters.
Private sector job coaching firms are earning double-digit profit margins from taxpayer-funded contracts with Sweden's Employment Agency to help unemployed Swedes back into the workforce.
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