The registered jobless total was down for the second consecutive month in March, standing at 82,638, or 6.1% less than in February.
The number is nevertheless 6.1% higher than the number of registered unemployed persons in Slovenia in the same month last year. A total of 4,569 jobless registered with the Employment Service anew in March, 4.1% fewer than in February and 41.8% fewer than in March 2020. Almost half of those saw their fixed-term contracts expired.
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