Nizhniy Tagil faces 5,300 unemployed

10 June 2009 (10:04)

The number of people applying to with Nizhniy Tagil employment center in search of a job has reached 10,200 people over the five months of 2009. The number of people registered with the center came to 5,300 people on June 1, 2009, Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the State Employment Service reports.


These figures largely depend on the state of events at Uralvagonzavod, the city’s industrial giant. The plant’s management declared earlier that they were going to send over 20,000 workers on forced leaves.


In the meantime, the number of people who’ve been able to find a suitable job came to 4,100 people in January-May 2009, while the proportion of people registered with the employment center comes to 2.39% of the city’s working age population.


The tension coefficient came to 3.08 unemployed per vacancy on June 1, 2009.


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