{"id":249118,"date":"2022-02-11T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=249118"},"modified":"2022-02-11T13:30:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T18:30:38","slug":"cuba-employed-236000-new-workers-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/cuba-employed-236000-new-workers-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba employed 236,000 new workers in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some 236,000 people found employment in Cuba last year, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) reported this Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ariel Fonseca, an official of the MTSS, <\/span>told the official newspaper <\/span>Granma<\/span><\/i><\/a> that this figure exceeds 147,000 new registered workers in 2020. Of the new posts 59% correspond to the state sector \u2014 the majority in the business sphere \u2014 and the remaining 41% to the non-state.<\/span><\/p>\n

The official added that last year more than 5,000 people were employed in the cooperative sector, \u201cin which there are still employment reserves,\u201d and commented that the aim is to \u201cattract more workforce to productive activities and less to the budgeted sector.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The data disclosed indicates that a great deal of the new workforce has been absorbed by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (<\/span>MSMEs<\/span><\/a>), which since they started being approved in September 2021 have reached the figure of 1,812, of which 1,759 are private.<\/span><\/p>\n

Five Cuban subjects to follow in 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n