Record number of jobs created last month

The Ergani employment database of the Ministry of Labor has recorded a large increase in full-time employment in April, with hiring significantly outweighing layoffs, as 132,352 new jobs were created in just one month.

This is the best performance since 2001, the first year for which data is available, while the four-month performance (January-April 2024) with 188,587 new jobs is also a record.

An extremely important fact for the quality of the domestic labor market is considered to be that most of the new positions were filled with workers signing full-time contracts. Although most of the positions were for specialties such as waitstaff, cooks and bakers, and customer reception staff, it seems that employers are turning to hiring permanent rather than temporary staff.

Therefore, according to the data, there is a positive employment balance for the third month...