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OVER 5,000 NEW jobs were created during the first three months of 2013, IBEC’s first jobs report for the year has shown.
While believing that the year to date has seen a stabilization in the jobs market, the organisation said that any additional increase in tax would undermine this.
The report by the Irish Business and Employers Confederation also found that unemployment decreased by 19,200 (or 6.1 per cent) in the year to Q4 of 2012. The vast majority of this drop (18,000), however, was due to a combination of those unemployed who were no longer actively seeking employment and those who had since emigrated.
(Graph – IBEC Jobs Report)
Other findings in the report, which can be read in full here, include the following:
The IBEC report concluded that retraining and education needs to be given priority in order to avoid a skills mismatch for vacancies in the future, while forecasting that the services sector would provide the main source of sustained employment growth.
IBEC chief economist Fergal O’Brien said that while a drop in unemployment was “positive to see”, he said that it was worrying that this was “mainly due to a decrease in the labour force.”
From a policy perspective, it is essential that we give hope to young jobs seekers, in particular, and also ensure that we keep people as close as possible to the workplace through training and upskilling programmes.
Economic recovery will be dependent on our skills pool and we must do everything possible to retain those skills in Ireland and to help the unemployed to upskill.
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and how many of these jobs were jobsbridge slave labour or CE schemes i wonder?
Subtract the amount of jobs that were lost in Q1 and what are we left with.
Over 45000 people emigrated this country between now and last April . The governments so called 100000 jobs policy is a complete failure .
If 5,000 jobs were created in three months, then 100,000 by the end of the government’s term is very likely.
Ye Higgins if they created 5000 jobs why is the live register still the same nearly as when this government started . Nearly 100000 people emigrated since. So they have actually lost another 100000 jobs not created them like promised . Now back to your dog.
Only another 390000 to go!
IBEC are only interested in creating jobs that cost companies virtually no money. It’s all about driving up profits for their shareholders. Then they wonder why nobody can afford to buy their products. Why does anyone listed to a word they say?
Yes, let’s get rid of all businesses and companies in Ireland. Drive them all out. We don’t need them.
That’ll show them.
Who cares what they think.
Sure we’ll all get jobs in the public service. The Government are creating 100,000 jobs. Didn’t they tell us that at the election?
It shouldn’t be too hard for them to create another extra couple of hundred thousand jobs that IBEC supply.
I hope they included the job the minister for education handed Mrs Gilmore — god help her she needs the money. No interviews for anyone else – it’s Labours way not Frankfurts way.
Frank
This mantra you use about Mrs Gilmore is a bit tiresome and has nothing whatever to do with the story at hand. I do believe you have a problem similar to obsessive compulsive behaviour and unless you deal with it now it could manifest itself in other ways. Obviously the cause is not Mrs or Mr Gilmore but rather a deep seated pathology manifesting itself in these utterances. I wish you well with your treatment!
How many we’re for Irish
Ridiculous comment really sad that people still think like this in Ireland.
Ignorant comment from someone who doesn’t know that “we’re” is that short for “we are”
@flippermac….Goosestep anyone !
Alot of false jobs created I know many friends who quit there jobs and left ireland. There main reason was too much tax and the standard of living going down the tubes. Also they feel things are going to get alot worse with the mortgage interest rate time bomb and the pension reserve fund near empty.
They feel jobs are been created but not quality jobs .
Itswhatitis
Having been a major employer for over thirty years I would be interested to hear you give us some details do what you describe as “false jobs” being created in the Irish economy. The data is the data and the storyline deals with a clear picture of stability of employment within the Private sector in 2012. This is a good news story which is being met by the mewling and puking classes in a typically negative and ignorant way.
Your saying “a job is a job”! And you are right. Is the wage a fair reflection of the efforts of the Employee and his subsequent outgoing’s (And let’s face it, more people over the past 10 years or so, have bought houses & cars than ever before)?
The risks for prospective Employers is being reduced with various schemes to encourage employment…..but that it would seem, is not being passed on to the Employee. It would seem to me, there are jobs being created for the sake of reducing the live register figure’s….and that’s it!!!
How many we’re lost, give us true information
Cheers reg
Reg it’s just a simple question I asked that all how many of the 5000 jobs went to Irish people I’d just like to know
Did they include the jobs in the new screening lab – MedLab Pathology that they are congratulating themselves on? Because while 50% of the Irish specimens will be processed there, 5 years ago 100% of the specimens were being processed here!
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