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MNA Business Desk: The number of people in employment in Germany grew year-on-year by 1.0 per cent in the second quarter of 2019 to a total of 45.2 million people, the German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) announced on Tuesday. However, the growth rate was slightly lower than in the previous two quarters when the number of people in employment in Germany still grew between 1.1 and 1.3 per cent. “Although the economic situation is deteriorating, the number of people in employment continues to rise,” Holger Schaefer, senior economist for employment at the German Economic Institute (IW) said on Tuesday. The ...

MNA Feature Desk: Limited employment opportunities at home are forcing Bangladeshi fortune-seekers to opt for risky migration to the European Union countries, experts said. They said a large number of youths remain jobless who cannot do business or other work at home, which prompts them to embark on a perilous sea journey to realise their dream. About 45 Bangladeshis remained missing since Thursday when a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea as they attempted to reach Europe from Libya. Tunisian Navy and fishermen on Saturday rescued 16 survivors. Of them, 14 were Bangladeshis. Of 60 migrants, some 37 who perished ...

MNA Editorial Desk: International Labour Organisation (ILO) has said the employment rate in Bangladesh and other countries in the region exceeded the global average and was expected to remain so in the coming years in view of government’s social protection measures. “The regional unemployment rate (in Asia and Pacific countries including Bangladesh) is projected to remain at around 3.6 per cent until 2020, below the global average,” the ILO said in its World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2019 (WESO), released recently. It said the global average of the unemployment rate was 5.6 per cent while the figure was around ...

MNA Editorial Desk: While significant achievements in the fight against child labor continue to be made in Bangladesh, some 1.2 million children are still locked in its worst forms. Child labor in Bangladesh is common, with 4.7 million or 12.6% of children aged 5 to 14 in the work force. Out of the child laborers involved in the work force, 83% are employed in rural areas and 17% are employed in urban areas. Employment ranges from jobs in the informal sector such as in agriculture and domestic service, to jobs in the formal sector, such as in the garment industry. ...