By: P.T., STA
Slovenia’s unemployment rate in the second quarter was at 4.2%, down by 0.1 percentage point from the quarter before.
While the number of the unemployment remained unchanged year-on-year, long-term unemployment subsided, while precarious work went up, shows the latest data from the Statistics Office. According to the labour-force survey, 59,000 people (or 6% of the actively employed) did precarious work in the second quarter, up by 11% from the quarter before and a 7% rise year-on-year.