Tag: workers
Economy 30.03.23 | 10:43

12 workers from Nepal and Pakistan sought jobs in Macedonia

The Emplyment Agency informs that a / total of 12 foreign citizens from Nepal and Pakistan have sought employment in Macedonia. This comes as the Government begins to promote the notion in that Macedonia will have to begin importing workers for the labor heavy textile industry. Textile mill owners are...
Economy 30.12.21 | 15:04

Number of workers in industry down 3.6 % in November

According to the State Statistical Office (SSO) data, the index of the number of employees in industry in November 2021, in comparison with November 2020, was 96.4. The number of employees in industry in the section Mining and quarrying in November 2021, in comparison with November 2020, decreased by...
Macedonia 19.07.21 | 23:33

Government wants to expand payments to workers who lost their jobs in the industrial collapse in the 1990ies

The Zaev Government plans to adopt changes to the law on workers who lost their jobs with the collapse of the Communist era companies by the end of July. The bill would add 1,100 people to the list of almost 12,000 who currently receive about 150 EUR per month. Tens of thousands of workers lost their...
Macedonia Economy 28.02.21 | 17:19

ZMAI: 6,783 jobs were lost in the textile industry in 2020

The ZMAI analytical center reports that only the textile sector in Macedonia lost 6,783 jobs in 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. The industry employs over 30,000 people across Macedonia, mostly workers who have difficulty getting other, more skilled and better paying jobs. ZMAI informs that 15...
Macedonia Economy 01.10.20 | 18:10

Industrial workforce down by nearly 5 percent

The State Statistics Bureau reports that the number of industrial workers is down by 4.7 percent in the first eight months of the year compared to the same period last year. The decline is accelerating, with a higher rate of job losses reported in August (5.1 percent). Manufacturing in particular dropped...
Macedonia 25.05.20 | 15:15

Concerns after two workers in a textile mill in Stip were diagnosed with the coronavirus

Two female workers in a textile factory in Stip were diagnosed with the coronavirus prompting concerns about the safety of these often crowded mills. A total of three cases were diagnosed in the city over the past two days, the third one being a doctor in a small clinic where a nurse was already diagnosed. Local...
Economy 01.04.20 | 18:44

Epidemic of layoffs, thousands of workers at risk of losing their jobs

There are no jobs that are not at risk because of the crisis caused by the coronavirus, and because of the government’s insufficient and poor measures for assistance. In the trade, over 29,000 workers are threatened with forced layoffs. Thousands of people employed with foreign investors are worried...
Economy 31.03.20 | 13:07

Number of industrial workers down 3.2 percent in January and February

The number of workers in the industry dropped 3.2 percent in January and February compared to the same period last year, the Macedonian Bureau of Statistics informed today. The drop was most notable in industries producing durable consumer goods (6.6 percent) and non-durable goods (4.5 percent), wth...
Macedonia 27.09.19 | 20:54

Government elite travels the world at state expense while Ohis workers protest in front of empty building

The whole known and unknown government elite at state expense is traveling around the world to accept the tenth conditional unconditional recommendation to open negotiations, while Ohis workers in Ohis protested in front of an empty building today, activist Jovana Mojsoska from Levica said on Friday. 30...

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