According to the German Federal Employment Organization, the number of unemployed German has reached about 3 million in January.
Such an increase is typical in the first month of the year, but the number in 2025 has been the best since January 2015.
Employers have blamed various headwinds that hinder Germany’s economic growth.
How the numbers accumulate
According to preliminary figures, the unemployment rate has increased by 0.4 % since December to 6.4 %.
In other words, the number of unemployed in Japan was 187,000 higher than in January 2024, reaching a total of 2.993 million.
The last number of unemployed in January was in 2015, when there were 3,032 million people.
Such a sudden rise in January in January is typical, many seasonal employment contracts end in the New Year, and the weather -dependent work under construction is on hold.
February often shows a stable trend before the first spring recovery begins in March.
What the employer said
“The labor market value is an alarm signal,” said Rainer Dulger, the German Employer Association Federation.
“The economic and structural weakness of the German economy is hitting the labor market with all their might, which is 5 to 12 minutes.”
Dargar said it was necessary to reduce bureaucracy, reform non -wage labor costs, and reduce energy prices.
“Later, Germany returns to the growth route, and then the turn around of the labor market will be successful.”
The German Mechanical Industrial Association said that it would like to reform after the general election on February 23.
“One of four companies in the Faculty of Machine Engineering is planning to reduce employment in the next six months, as shown in the economic survey,” VDMA manages the executive Thilo Broadmann. “Companies are doing as much as possible to maintain nuclear labor, and invests in training and promoting young talent.”
“Therefore, it is even more important to return social security to the tolerance in order to reduce labor costs.”
Insangent news about retail sales
There are more German economic news, including the Federal Statistics Bureau’s figures on Friday, indicating that retail sales fell unexpectedly in December.
Sales in December decreased by 1.6 % compared to the previous month, when economists predicted sales.
This decline has shown 1.7 % of food sales and 0.7 % decrease in non -food retail sales, but overall retail sales have increased by 1.8 % a year.
Edit: West Dokly
