{"id":202373,"date":"2026-09-03T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/202373\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:22:16","slug":"bielstat-9-2-percent-more-people-dismissed-than-hired-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/202373\/","title":{"rendered":"Bie\u0142stat: 9.2 percent more people dismissed than hired in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>September 3,&nbsp;<em>Pozirk.<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Job losses outnumbered job gains by 9.2 percent in the first six months of 2026, with 375,080 workers dismissed and 343,609 hired, according to&nbsp;<em>Pozirk\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;analysis of the National Statistics Committee\u2019s (Bie\u0142stat) data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of people who found new jobs increased by 5.4 percent year on year, while the number of layoffs rose by 7.4 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Belarusian economy reportedly employed 4,182,500 people in July, 19,700 more than in January, according to the official data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"insert-block\">\n\n    <div class=\"insert-block__img\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/rabota_kaska_pixabay_1128x752-354x236.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/rabota_kaska_pixabay_1128x752-354x236.jpg 354w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/rabota_kaska_pixabay_1128x752-734x490.jpg 734w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/rabota_kaska_pixabay_1128x752-178x118.jpg 178w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/rabota_kaska_pixabay_1128x752-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pozirk.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/rabota_kaska_pixabay_1128x752.jpg 1128w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 354px) 100vw, 354px\" \/>                        <label class=\"insert-block__tag--mobile\"> Economy<\/label>\n\n                <\/div>\n    <div class=\"insert-block__text\">\n                    <label class=\"insert-block__tag\">Economy<\/label>\n                <h3 class=\"insert-block__title\">Vacancies for foreign workers keep rising in Belarus<\/h3>\n        <div class=\"insert-block__descr\">August 16, Pozirk. A total of 13,912 job openings are available for foreign nationals in Belarus as of August 16, according to the website of the Belarusian State Employment Service. The number of vacancies rose by 1.2 percent in just &#8230;<\/div>\n        <a class=\"insert-block__btn-block\" href=\"\/en\/news\/200157\">\n            <button class=\"btn\">\n                <div class='btn__text'>Read the article<\/div>\n            <\/button>\n        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 3,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Job losses outnumbered job gains by 9.2 percent in the first six months of 2026, with 375,080 workers dismissed and 343,609 hired, according to&nbsp;Pozirk\u2019s&nbsp;analysis of the National Statistics Committee\u2019s (Bie\u0142stat) data. The number of people who found new jobs increased by 5.4 percent year on year, while the number of layoffs rose by 7.4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":63993,"template":"","rubric":[21],"class_list":["post-202373","articles","type-articles","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","rubric-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bie\u0142stat: 9.2 percent more people dismissed than hired in H1 | Pozirk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"September 3,&nbsp;Pozirk.&nbsp;Job losses outnumbered job gains by 9.2 percent in the first six months of 2026, with 375,080 workers dismissed and 343,609\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/202373\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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