Job relief for domestic workers in South Africa
The South African economy has absorbed 37,000 domestic workers back into employment over the past two quarters according to statistics published by StatSA.
The stats body said that domestic workers currently employed in the third quarter (Jul- Sep) of 2016 amounted to 1.026 million, up from 1.013 million in the second quarter, and from 980,000 in the first quarter.
Year-on-year, the data showed the unskilled occupation to be relatively unchanged from a tally of 1.025 million in Q3 of 2015.
Overall, South Africa’s unemployment rate for the third quarter of 2016 has climbed to 27.1%, Stats SA said on Tuesday, representing the worst level in 13-years.
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The stats showed that while 288,000 more people were employed between Q2 and Q3 of 2016, the rate of attrition did not match the rate of new workers entering the workforce.
Up to 527,000 new people entered the workforce, giving South Africa a total labour force of 21.7 million people, while only 15.8 million people are formally employed.
A large portion of those people are unskilled including more than a million domestic workers, and 3.7 million in ‘elementary’ employment which extends to manual labour.
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