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Ignatius Baffour Awuah <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government has reportedly created some 611,397 new jobs in the formal sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The jobs were created between 2017 and 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, "},"modified":"2019-08-15T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:21:11","slug":"govt-creates-611397-new-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/15\/govt-creates-611397-new-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov’t Creates 611,397 New Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ignatius Baffour Awuah <\/strong><\/p>\n

Government has reportedly created some 611,397 new jobs in the formal sector.<\/p>\n

The jobs were created between 2017 and 2019.<\/p>\n

Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffour Awuah, made this known to the media on Thursday, August 15, 2019, at the Ministry of Information Meet-The-Press Series.<\/p>\n

Giving the breakdown of the jobs, he stated that 343,458 new jobs were created by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) during the period under review.<\/p>\n

He said \u201cin addition to these new jobs in the formal sector, the ever famous Planting for Food and Jobs Programme created jobs from 2017 to 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to him, 267,939 jobs were created by formal private sector.<\/p>\n

He revealed that a total of 11.6 million, representing 63 percent of the working age population are in different types of employment.<\/p>\n

According to him, 1.14 million people, representing about 6 percent are working for own use or working voluntarily and therefore not considered to be in employment as per ILO definition of employment.<\/p>\n

He said the remaining 5.36 million are not working because of schooling, incapacitation, domestic activities or unemployment.<\/p>\n

Drop<\/p>\n

He disclosed that unemployment rate has dropped from 11.9 percent in 2015 to 7.1 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n

BY Melvin Tarlue <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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