{"id":519310,"date":"2025-10-22T09:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519310\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T09:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:46:32","slug":"unemployment-rose-in-september-yle-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/519310\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment rose in September | Yle News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Finnish jobless rate is around ten percent.<\/p>\n

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More people were out of work last month. Image: Jorge Gonz\u00e1lez \/ Yle<\/p>\n

The number of unemployed rose to around 259,000 in September, up 32,000 from a year earlier, according to Statistics Finland.<\/p>\n

The number cruncher’s latest labour force survey found that unemployment increased across all age groups compared with the same month in 2024.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the total number of employed people also grew, reaching 2,589,000 in September \u2014 16,000 higher than a year ago.<\/p>\n

Employment among men rose by 30,000, while the number of employed women fell by 14,000 compared with September 2024.<\/p>\n

The unemployment trend rate, or long-term direction, remained high at 9.9 per cent in September. In August, the trend rate surpassed 10 percent, marking one of the bleakest readings in years.<\/p>\n

Figures published yesterday indicated that more businesses closed down last month. The number of bankruptcies in Finland rose in September<\/a> compared to the same month a year ago, according to Statistics Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Finnish jobless rate is around ten percent. Open image viewer More people were out of work last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3092],"tags":[51,897,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-519310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115417186389759116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}