National Employment Agency reports record low unemployment in June

The trend for decrease of registered unemployment in the country continues in June, and the level is 5.7% in the month, Bulgaria’s National Employment Agency said on 16^th of July.

Administrative statistics reported a decrease of 0.4% compared to May 2018 and 1.1% on an annual basis.

Registered unemployed were 188,576 at the end of the month, their number dropping down to 5.9% compared to previous month and 15.9% compared to a year earlier.

The newly registered persons in June were 21,898, out of which 1,704 were neither employed nor students, nor were they looking for a job.

Since the beginning of the year, the employees of the labour offices have activated 31,903 persons, and the whole activation tool of the Employment Agency has been implemented: labour exchanges, meetings and presentations with graduates organized by career centres, youth, roma, labour mediators and others.