Brazil lost 265,811 job vacancies job with a formal contract in December, but ended 2021 with growth, according to data from the General Register of Employed and Unemployed (Caged) released this Monday (31). In all, there were 1,437,910 admissions and 1,703,721 dismissals.
Published by Ministry of Labor and Welfare, the data also show that the country registered the generation of 2,730,597 formal job vacancies in 2021. The balance in the year was 20,699,802 admissions and 17,969,205 dismissals.
The number is the highest positive balance recorded for closed years in the entire historical series of Caged, which began in 2010.
Last month’s figure was down from November, when Brazil recorded the creation of 300,182 formal job vacancies after a downward revision. It was also higher than expected by the market, which projected a loss of 162,000 jobs.
In December, the average admission salary was BRL 1,793.34. According to Caged, only the Business had a positive balance in December, creating 9,013 formal jobs.
The biggest drop was in the services (-104,670), followed by Industry (-92,047), Construction (-52,033) and Agriculture, livestock, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture (-26,073).
Considering the regional division of Brazil, all had lost jobs with a formal contract. The biggest drop was in the South region, with 1.01%, followed by the North (-0.68%), Southeast (-0.64%), Central-West (-0.61%) and Northeast (-0. 23%).
Among the states, only Alagoas and Paraíba had a positive balance, of 615 and 61 new jobs, respectively. The worst results were in São Paulo, with a loss of 103,954 jobs, and Santa Catarina, with 36,644 jobs lost.
In the intermittent work regime, the balance was positive, with 6,735 new vacancies. In all, out of 22,039 admissions and 15,304 dismissals in December 2021.
The sector with the highest gain was Services (4,480), and the lowest, agriculture (-65). Part-time work had a negative balance, with 6,750 fewer vacancies.
In 2021, the average admission salary was R$ 1,921.19. The Services sector was the one that hired the most, with 1,226,026 new formal vacancies, followed by Commerce (643,754), Industry (475,141), Construction (244,755) and Agriculture (140,927).
In the regional division, the North had the highest percentage generation of vacancies, with growth of 8.62%, while the Southeast had the highest generation, with 1,348,692 new jobs. The lowest percentage generation was in the South, with an increase of 6.6%, and the North was the region that opened fewer vacancies, 154,667.
Also according to Caged, in 2021 the balance of intermittent work was 91,340 vacancies, while the part-time regime was 35,637 new vacancies.
Pnad and Caged
The two surveys provide data on work and employment. However, the survey carried out by the IBGE is broader, with information related to informal employment, which Caged cannot reach, since it only refers to the records of formal contracts sent by companies, as explained by the director of the CNN Brasil Business, Fernando Nakagawa.
Caged brings records of admissions and dismissals of employees hired under the Consolidation of Labor Laws (CLT) regime, and is used by the Unemployment Insurance Program to analyze information and pay benefits.
Source: CNN Brasil
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