Russia’s unemployment remains at 0.8% of workforce

MOSCOW, Oct 14 (PRIME) -- The amount of people registered with employment services as unemployed shrank to 602,800 people over the past week, and unemployment remains at 0.8% of the workforce, the office of Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said in a statement on Friday.

The amount of workers in downtime decreased by 2% over the past week to 87,800 people, and the amount of employees working part-time shrank by 10% to 103,000 people, the office said.

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