Brazil created 260,353 formal jobs with a formal contract in January this year, the best result for the month in the entire historical series, which started in 1992, that is, in 30 years, according to data released on Tuesday (16) by the Ministry of the Economy. The largest generation of formal jobs, for January, had been registered in 2010 (+181,419 vacancies). With this, the country recovers the losses recorded between March and June, during the first wave of the pandemic, when 1.624 million layoffs were carried out more than the hires.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.