Comparing with the same month last year, industrial employment dropped 7.9% in December 2015. The number of workers decreased in the 18 segments surveyed, with a highlight to the pressures coming from means of transportation (-14.3%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-16.2%), machinery and equipment (-11.3%), rubber and plastic (-12.7%), wearing apparel (-9.8%), fabricated metal products (-10.5%), non-metallic mineral products (-9.8%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-11.2%), food and beverages (-2.2%), textiles (-9.2%), basic metals (-9.4%), footwear and leather (-5.3%), paper and press (-3.6%), wood (-7.9%), mining and quarrying industries (-4.4%) and chemical products (-1.9%).

In terms of the cumulative index in the 12 months of the year, industrial employment recorded decrease of 6.2%, with negative rates in the 18 sectors surveyed. The main contributions to the general average came from means of transportation (-11.4%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-13.9%), fabricated metal products (-10.7%), machinery and equipment (-8.3%), food and beverages (-2.2%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-9.7%), wearing apparel (-6.4%), rubber and plastic (-5.7%), footwear and leather (-6.8%), fabricated metal products (-7.5%), non-metallic mineral products (-4.8%), textiles (-5.7%), paper and press (-3.5%) and mining and quarrying industries (-4.7%).

Number of hours paid changes -0.1% in December

In December of 2015, the number of hours paid to industrial workers, discounted the seasonal influences, contracted 0.1% against the previous month - the tenth consecutive negative rate, accumulating in this period a loss of 7.4%. With these results, the quarterly moving average index decreased 0.4%, in the quarter which ended in December 2015, in comparison with the level reached in the previous month, and has kept the downward trend started in May 2013. 

In the comparison with the same month a year ago, the number of hours paid to industrial employers decreased 7.4% in December 2015, the 31st consecutive negative rate in that type of comparison. All the 18 sectors surveyed recorded decrease. The main negative influences came from means of transportation (14.1%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-17.2%), machinery and equipment (-9.4%), rubber and plastic (-11.9%), fabricated metal products (-10.4%), wearing apparel (-9.0%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-12.3%), non-metallic mineral products (-9.1%), textiles (-8.5%), footwear and leather (-6.7%), food and beverages (-1.3%), fabricated metal products (-8.7%), paper and press (-3.4%), wood (-7.5%) and mining and quarrying industries (-5.3%).

In the cumulative index of 2015, the number of hours paid in the industry dropped 6.7% over the same period in the previous year. It was the greatest reduction in the time series started in 2002, with the 18 sectors surveyed registering reduction. The most relevant negative impacts on the global average were seen in means of transportation (-12.4%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-13.5%), fabricated metal products (-11.0%), machinery and equipment (-8.6%), food and beverages (-2.4%), other manufactured products (-10.5%), rubber and plastic (-7.1%), wearing apparel (-6.1%), footwear and leather (-8.5%), non-metallic mineral products (-5.9%), basic metals (-9.5%), textiles (-5.3%), paper and press (-4.4%), oil refining and ethanol production (-7.3%), mining and quarrying industries (-4.5%) and wood (-6.0%).

The annualized rate, cumulative index over the last 12 months, going from 6.5% in November to 6.7% in December had the steepest negative result since the beginning of the time series and kept the downward trend started in September 2013 (-1.0%).

Value of real payroll remains unchanged (0.0%) in December

In December 2015, the value of the real payroll of the industrial workers (seasonally adjusted) remained stable (0.0%) compared with the preceding month, after recording five months of consecutive negative results, which accumulated a reduction of 7.2%. In this monthly index, there was a negative influence of the manufacturing industry (-0.6%), which kept recording negative rates for the 12nd month in a row, since the mining sector advanced 5.3%. With these results, the quarterly moving average decreased 0.9% in the quarter which ended in July 2015, in comparison with the level reached in the previous month, and has kept the downward trend started last February. 

In the comparison with the same month a year ago, the value of the real payroll decreased 11.5% in December 2015 - the sharpest reduction in the time series in this kind of comparison, with negative results in the 18 segments surveyed, with highlight to means of transportation (-18.1%), machinery and equipment (-14.4%), food and beverages (-8.3%), fabricated metal products (-16.9%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-15.3%), rubber and plastic (-11.6%), basic metals (-12.4%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-16.6%), textiles (-14.9%), non-metallic mineral products (-10.3%), mining and quarrying (-6.4%), footwear and leather (-11.8%), wearing apparel (-9.4%), chemicals (-3.5%), paper and press (-3.8%) and oil refining and ethanol production (-7.6%).

In the cumulative index over the 12 months of 2015, the value of the real payroll had a reduction of 7.9%, the highest reduction of the time series started in 2002, with negative rates in the 18 activities surveyed, pressed, mainly, by the drops seen in means of transportation (-13.4%), machinery and equipment (-8.1%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-12.8%), food and beverages (-4.1%), fabricated metal products (-12.3%), basic metals (-11.0%), mining and quarrying (-7.3%), rubber and plastic (-7.5%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-10.6%), paper and press (-4.3%), footwear and leather (-9.8%), non-metallic mineral products (-5.4%), textiles (-7.6%), oil refining and ethanol production (-6.8%), chemicals (-2.0%) and wearing apparel (-3.7%).

The annual rate (index accumulated in the last 12 months), recording a retraction of 7.9% in December 2015, kept the downward trend started in January of 2014 (1.6%).