Published on January 10, 2025 at 6:20 p.m. / Modified on January 10, 2025 at 6:26 p.m.
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It’s no longer a secret that Swiss industrial companies are suffering. More precisely, some of them are transpiring, as the State Secretariat for the Economy noted on Friday, during its annual press briefing devoted to the job market in 2024.
At first glance, there’s not much to complain about. “The situation on the labor market is good,” underlined in the preamble Valérie Berset Bircher, deputy director of the Seco labor division. The unemployment rate increased in 2024 from 2 to 2.4% (from 2.2% to 2.6% taking into account seasonal variations). Although it increases, it remains at a historically low level. “The labor shortage has become a less significant obstacle to production, because the need for qualified personnel has decreased,” we observe from Bern.
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