Sentences with phrase «overall employment figures»

Yet despite the highly publicised lay - offs like those at Qantas, and closures like Holden's and Ford's having very concentrated geographic impacts, the job numbers involved are relatively modest in overall employment figures in Australia.

Not exact matches

First, while we do pay close attention to the NAPM figures, given their long history, it is important to recognize that manufacturing is only about 20 % of the overall economy, and that manufacturing employment has also dropped to a fraction of total employment.

But according to the latest figures from the Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, New York, «overall state - local government employment is now 2 percent below its level at the start of the recession, while private employment is down 5.8 percent over the same period.»