The latest tally suggested a gain of 44,000 people, which lifts the number of employees to 8.06 million. Manufacturing sectors raised the number of workers by 15,000, hotels and restaurants by 12,000, and retailers and wholesale operators by 7,000, the statistics agency said. Photo: Liao Cheng-hui, Taipei Times“The job market started to see the effect of conditional opening and continued to heal in the absence of major cluster infections,” DGBAS Deputy Director Chen Hui-hsin (陳惠欣) told a news conference in Taipei. The improvement gathered further steam in August, thanks to families taking advantage of the summer vacation before the school year began this month, Chen said. The recovery in take-home pay was most obvious among restaurants and hotels at 3.75 percent, Chen said.

Source: Taipei Times September 13, 2021 15:56 UTC