SA face jobs recession

Florentia Roman

11 September 2012

Recruitment group Adcorp says South Africa is facing a possible jobs recession as employment numbers keep falling every month.

Adcorp Labour market analyst Loane Sharp says most of the job losses last month were in the formal sector which shed over 14-thousand jobs.

He says that the last few months there has been a trend towards the use of agency temps.

As part of labour risk outsourcing business now instead use in-house temps.