Admission in retail is the highest in 4 years

The retail trade ended 2018 with the highest number of net hiring workers in the past four years. Between admissions and dismissals, must have been opened with officially registered vacancies 62000 in 2018, according to projections of the National Confederation of Commerce (CNC). The official data of the General Register of employed and unemployed (Caged) closed the year 2018 should be known on Wednesday, 23. Compared to other sectors, the trade was the third largest on the expansion of places in 12 months up to November, behind only the services in General and public utility services. Despite the worst moment in the retail have fallen behind, the two years in a row of positive net balance of jobs-2017 and 2018-managed to retrieve only a quarter of 410,000 jobs destroyed in the crisis. "The good side of the coin is that we're growing apart from the acute stage of the crisis; the bad news is that the recovery is being slow ", says the Chief Economist of CNC, Fabio Bentes, responsible for the projections. As the new Government is more concerned with promoting investment and consumption, this strategy should help the only retail forward predicts Bentes. In 2018, the trade must have grown 5.3% and for 2019, CNC hopes an advance of 5.8%. Of the ten segments analyzed in 12 months up to November, supermarkets and pharmacies, sectors that sell essential items like food and medicine, led the signings. The net balance of slots open for supermarkets was of the period and 36100 for pharmacies was 13800. Carrefour opened over 5500 new vacancies in 2018 to bear the expansion. The group, which includes the DPSP drugstores Pacheco and Sao Paulo, for example, opened 110 stores last year and hired 1400 workers. "If we add the opening of shops and the replacement of labor were 8000 2018 admissions," says Liliane Cammarano, Executive Manager of HR. Most of the contractors are clerks, young people in search of their first job. History repeats itself on Streak Drogasil, another industry giant. Last year, the group opened 240 shops and opened over 3000 new vacancies. This year should look like in admissions, says the Vice President of HR, Maria Suzana de Souza. She points out that the last five years and expansion, as well as foods, medicines are basic items whose consumption was maintained, even in the crisis. Fragility. For Bentes, the fact that supermarkets and pharmacies lead the hiring reflects the fragility of the recovery, as these segments are compulsory consumption. Another point which reinforces the fragility is the average salary of current admission at retail in November have not recovered the inflation of the period. In November, the average salary of the employed was R $1,278.45, with a variation of 2.6% in 12 months, down from high of 4.05% of inflation. "With high unemployment, people accept a lower salary," says Bentes. Most admitted has 19 and 24 years old and in high school complete, incomplete and complete upper. "It's the young worker, good and cheap." The information is from the newspaper O Estado de s. Paulo.