Slovakia had in April the lowest unemployment rate ever, with the unemployment rate, calculated from the total number of the unemployed to the economically active population, reaching 5.96 percent in April 2024, Labour Minister Erik Tomas (Hlas-SD) said at a press conference on Tuesday, adding that unemployment is thus no longer one of Slovakia's biggest problems.
"Slovakia has reached a significant milestone today. We have the lowest unemployment rate since our country was established and I dare to say that unemployment is definitely no longer one of the biggest problems in Slovakia and other things, such as the pressure on salary growth as such, are becoming our priorities" said Tomas.
The head of the Labour Ministry further added that the indicator of the share of the unemployed of working age in the working age population was 4.56 percent in April. The share of available job seekers in the working age population was 3.82 percent.
However, Tomas pointed out that although unemployment has reached its historical low, there are still 165,000 unemployed people in Slovakia, noting that the Labour Ministry has already launched several programmes to help job seekers find work.
(TASR)
