{"id":546578,"date":"2026-05-29T11:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=546578"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:51:00","slug":"belarusian-organisations-laid-off-15-000-more-workers-than-they-hired-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-organisations-laid-off-15-000-more-workers-than-they-hired-in-april","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Organisations Laid Off 15,000 More Workers Than They Hired in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarusian enterprises dismissed more employees than they hired in April, according to data published by Belstat. The statistics do not include microenterprises and small businesses without departmental subordination.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 55,200 people were hired in April, while 70,200 were dismissed. The number of dismissals exceeded the number of hires by 15,023.<\/p>\n<p>Compared with April 2025, the number of hires increased by 5.2%, while the number of dismissals remained at last year\u2019s level.<\/p>\n<p>In January-April, Belarusian enterprises hired 203,350 people and dismissed 219,500. The overall balance was negative, with dismissals exceeding hires by 16,200.<\/p>\n<p>During the first four months of the year, hiring increased by 3.6%, while dismissals rose by 4.8%.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the largest negative employment balances were recorded in agriculture, forestry and fishing (-1,301), manufacturing (-3,496), trade (-341), transport and logistics (-1,669), information and communications (-54), education (-2,911), healthcare (-1,820), and arts, sports, entertainment and recreation (-2,052).<\/p>\n<p>Positive employment balances in April were recorded only in construction (+183) and public administration (+28).<\/p>\n<p>The April figures may be linked to seasonal factors, including the end of the heating season.<\/p>\n<p>Over the January-April period, dismissals exceeded hires in manufacturing (-5,911), agriculture, forestry and fishing (-319), healthcare (-2,230), transport and logistics (-3,981), trade (-783), and education (-3,032).<\/p>\n<p>During January-April, positive employment balances were recorded in construction (+2,389), information and communications (+518), and public administration (+132).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian enterprises dismissed more employees than they hired in April, according to data published by Belstat. The statistics do not include microenterprises and small businesses without departmental subordination. A total of 55,200 people were hired in April, while 70,200 were dismissed. The number of dismissals exceeded the number of hires by 15,023. Compared with April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":512594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a1953777a19e.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Organisations Laid Off 15,000 More Workers Than They Hired in April"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}