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Jobless rate drops with arrival of Spring

This content was published on Apr 8, 2010 It is the biggest March decrease in three years, said Seco’s labour division head Serge Gaillard. Just over 166,000 people were registered as unemployed. Most of them are foreigners, a Seco statement said on Thursday. The jobless rate among younger people dropped significantly to 4.8 per cent last month compared with February. Gaillard warned against…

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Swiss help provide a job for the World Cup

This content was published on Apr 3, 2010 Officially, more than 51 per cent of young South Africans are unemployed. But the rate is in fact much higher among black people. “This job has restored my confidence. I had lost all my self-esteem. I used to just let the days go by, trying not to think of tomorrow,” says Lucky Letsobe, aged 24.…

Reforms approved to strengthen pension supervision

This content was published on Mar 19, 2010 On the final day of its spring session, parliament agreed to introduce measures to improve governance, transparency and regulation. The structural reforms call for the creation of a federal supervisory body and a strengthening of supervision through cantonal and regional authorities. The reforms are to be introduced in stages, beginning in January 2011, when measures…

Swiss fourth-quarter GDP beats expectations

This content was published on Mar 2, 2010 The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs said on Tuesday that the year-on-year increase was 0.6 per cent for the same period. Overall, the Swiss economy shrank by 1.5 per cent in 2009. Seco said that the trade balance gave a positive boost to growth and that consumption and capital expenditures also increased. On the production…

GDP growth slows in first quarter

This content was published on Mar 2, 2010 This was thanks to private consumers and an increase in exports of “precious objects” – precious metals, gems and art objects – the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) reported on Tuesday. From quarter to quarter, however, the Swiss economy grew more slowly than in previous months, with real GDP expanding 0.4 per cent over…

Grey pride

This content was published on Feb 10, 2010 Switzerland's older generation in its golden years. With life expectancy increasing, the time after retirement has a new importance.

Economy ready to grow as labour market suffers

This content was published on Dec 15, 2009 The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) revised its forecasts for the better, saying the country’s real gross domestic product could swell by 0.7 per cent in 2010. That follows the deepest recession since 1975 and a decline of 1.6 per cent for 2009. Up until now Seco’s expert group of economic forecasters had predicted…

Jobless rate climbs a little higher

This content was published on Dec 9, 2009 Seco said that 163,950 people were jobless, an increase of 5,812 compared with the previous month, adding that the increase mainly affected those in the construction and hotel industry. It added that the increase was less than had been expected. In October, the unemployment rate was four per cent. Seco noted that when adjusted for…

Swiss cut disability payments to Kosovo

This content was published on Dec 8, 2009 Accords with countries in the former Yugoslavia and with Turkey that govern payments to disabled workers once employed in Switzerland would also be renegotiated, Interior Minister Didier Burkhalter said. Switzerland pays pensions to roughly 59,000 people living abroad. About 43,000 of those are European Union nationals. A few hundred of payments go to people in…

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