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Labor market analysis of digital, fashion and jewelry sectors
23-1-2019
In collaboration with partners, the labor ministry organized yesterday a session in Beirut to present the results of of the labor market analysis in the digital, fashion and jewelry sectors. This comes as part of the EU funded ‘Technical Assistance to Support the Promotion of Social Dialogue in Lebanon’ project. During the session, expert Joumana Breihi outlined the outputs which assist the labor ministry and the National Employment Office in establishing close ties within the above sectors in order to help companies discover and recruit skilled labor and facilitate job seekers in their lookout for opportunities. A statement by the project indicated that, the digital sector in Lebanon provides ample prospects for the country’s economy and its potential of growth, pointing out that the number of male workforce is many fold the number of females. The sector, the statement said, is a youth sector, but despite this, nearly 23 per cent of firms do not employ young people. In the fashion and jewelry industries, the statement noted that competition is fierce in the domestic market with a capacity of USD 600 million 37% of fashion companies have reportedly not employed any female, while there are less than 7% of female employees in the jewelry sector, and the youth staff is limited in both sectors, the statement concluded. For more info (in Arabic), kindly visit the following link, https://goo.gl/Q5zDRZ. (Al Mustaqbal, January 23, 2019)
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