The labor market continues to bleed due to the high costs of renewing work permits for because the non-graduate expatriates continue to pay more than 800 dinars a year to renew their work permit and a recent report issued by the Public Authority for Manpower, in cooperation with the Central Administration of Statistics, show more than 4,000 expatriates from this category or workers have left the country in the first quarter of this year.
The government report pointed out that the decline hit all types of workers from the 60 category, whether university graduates or holders of a high school certificate and below, while their numbers stabilized until last April at 65 thousand resident workers.
The employment of the non-graduates 60 years and above of pay large fees in exchange for renewing work permits, residence and health insurance. As for the sectors that witnessed a decline in the labor market, the report pointed out that the sector of administrative and support services activities was the highest in the total number of departures in 3 months, with a decrease of 1,423 workers, followed by the construction sector, which lost 792 workers.
The agriculture, forestry and fishing sector also lost 739 workers, in addition to 257 workers who left the accommodation and food services sector, and 103 others who left permanently after working for years in the manufacturing sector.
With regard to non-sixty workers, the report indicated that the sectors of “wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles witnessed an increase of 3,406 workers, followed by the professional, scientific and technical activities sector with 2016 workers.”
He continued: The total number of workers in the education sector also increased by 1,499, in addition to the water supply and sanitation activities, waste management and treatment, by 1,398 workers. He indicated that the number of registered workers in the mining and quarrying sector increased by 412, and 573 in the field of human health and social work.
Changes in the labor market in the first quarter of 2022
1.3 million total workers in the private sector
1423 left the administrative services sector
792 workers left the construction sector
3,406 workers joined the wholesale trade and vehicle repair sector
1499 workers entered the education sector
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