BECCS Seeking To Recruit Two Specialists
The Barbados Employment and Career Counselling Service (BECCS) is seeking to recruit, a qualified Sustainable Energy Project Development and Gender Specialist and a Knowledge...
Workers Walk & Give To HIV Food Bank
Over the past decade, the Labour Department has been actively raising HIV awareness and advocating for the protection of the rights of workers, including...
White Paper To Inform NGO Legislation
Government is now in possession of a White Paper that will inform the framing of legislation to regulate the operations of non-governmental organizations (NGOs)...
Call For More Companies To Give Internships
When Government rolls out its National First Jobs Programme, the matter of internships and giving people, particularly students and young people, exposure and opportunities to...
Minister Lauds Tech Firm For Workplace Policies
“An eye opener!” That’s what Minister of Labour and Social Partnership Relations, Colin Jordan received yesterday, when he visited Hyuna, a work environment he...
Latest Snapshot of the Barbados Labour Market
| Statistics | Year | Total |
|---|---|---|
| General Unemployment Rate % | 2017 | 10.0 |
| Youth Unemployment Rate % | 2017 | 29.3 |
| Youth Unemployed Labour Force (000s) | 2017 | 4.1 |
| Unemployed Labour Force (000s) | 2017 | 14.4 |
| Labour Force (000s) | 2017 | 144.3 |
| Youth Labour Force (000s) | 2017 | 14.1 |
| Employed Labour Force (000s) | 2017 | 129.9 |
| Labour Force Participation Rate % | 2017 | 65.4 |
