In June 2012, the total of employed persons in the industry recorded a negative change of 0.2% against the immediately previous month, in the seasonally adjusted series - the fourth consecutive negative result in this kind of comparison, accumulating a loss of 1.2% in this period. Concerning the seasonally adjusted series, the quarterly moving average index, with a change of -0.3% between the quarters ended in May and June, kept the prevailing negative behavior seen since October last year. Still concerning the seasonally adjusted series, in the quarter over immediately previous quarter comparison, the industrial employment recorded a fall of 0.8% in the second quarter of 2012 - the third quarter of consecutive negative results, accumulating a loss of 1.7% in this period. In the comparison with the same month a year ago, the industrial employment declined 1.8% in June 2012, the ninth consecutive negative result in this kind of comparison and the most intense since December 2009 (-2.4%).  Comparing to the same period a year ago, the total of salaried employed persons shrank either in the end of the second quarter of 2012(-1.6%) and in the accumulated index of the first six months of the year (-1.2%).  The annual rate (index accumulated in the last 12 months), recording -0.6% in June 2012, kept the downward trend begun in February 2011 (3.9%).

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Comparing with the same month last year, the industrial employment receded 1.8% in June 2012, with the contingent of employees recording reduction in twelve of the fourteen places surveyed.  The main negative impact on the overall average was observed in São Paulo (-3.5%), pushed at a great extent by the negative rates recorded in 14 of the 18 sectors surveyed. The highlight was the drop in the total number of employed persons in the industries of fabricated metal products (-14.7%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-10.2%), basic metals (-16.9%), transportation means (-4.2%), apparel (-8.7%) and textiles (-8.2%). It is also worth mentioning the negative results posted by the Northeast Region (-2.7%), Rio Grande do Sul (-2.6%), Santa Catarina (-1.4%), Bahia (-4.0%) and Ceará (-3.2%). The former was influenced by the drops in the sectors of footwear and leather (-5.0%), apparel (-6.2%) and textiles (-10.3%); the second region fell due to losses registered in footwear and leather (-8.2%), rubber and plastic (-11.9%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-5.4%) and tobacco (-16.4%); the third was pushed by reductions coming from apparel (-10.1%), wood (-14.5%) and footwear and leather (-20.6%); the industry of Bahia felt the impact of decreases in footwear and leather (-12.9%), food products and beverages (-5.1%) and other products of the manufacturing industry (-16,2%); and the last region was affected by the contractions of the employed persons of the manufacturing industry of apparel (-6.2%), textiles (-8.8%) and footwear and leather (-2.3%). On the other hand, Paraná (1.8%) and Minas Gerais (0.3%) marked the main positive contributions on the industrial employment in the country. The highlights were the segments of communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (38.1%) and food and beverages (5.4%), in the industry in Paraná, and of fabricated metal products (6.8%), mining and quarrying industries (8.6%), in the Minas Gerais’ industrial sector.

Among the sectors, considering the monthly index, the total of salaried employed persons shrank in 13 of the 18 sectors surveyed. The highlights were the negative results from apparel (-8.6%), fabricated metal products (-4.8%), footwear and leather (-5.9%), textiles (-5.8%), paper and press (-4.2%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-4.2%), transportation means (-2.1%), wood (-7.3%), basic metals (-4.2%) and rubber and plastic (-2.6%).  On the other hand, the main positive impacts on the industry overall were seen in the sectors of food and beverages (3.5%), mining and quarrying industries (4.3%) and machinery and equipment (0.8%).

In the quarterly analysis, the industrial employment, down 1.6% in the second quarter of 2012, posted drops for the third consecutive quarter in a row and kept the downward trend started in third quarter of 2010 (5.1%), both comparisons against the same period a year ago. The lowest dynamism seen in the reductions between the first (-0.8%) and the second quarter 2012 (-1.6%) was observed in 13 places and in 13 sectors, with a highlight to transportation means (from 1.7% to -1.4%), food and beverages (from 4.4% to 3.3%), other products of the manufacturing industry (from 0,3% to -3,7%), petroleum refinement and alcohol production (from 3.0% to -2.7%) and apparel (from -6.6% to - 8.5%), among the segments; and Rio Grande do Sul (from 0.8% to -1.9%), Pernambuco (from 2.0% to -0.7%), Bahia (from -2.1% to -3.6%), Minas Gerais (from 1.9% to 0.6%), Paraná (from 4.0% to 2.7%), the Northeast region (from -1.4% to -2.6%) and the  North and Central-West regions (from 0.9% to -0.3%), among the places.

In the index accumulated in the first six months of 2012, the industrial employment kept the falling movement (-1.2%), with negative rates in nine of the 14 places and in 12 of the 18 sectors surveyed. Among the places, São Paulo (-3.2%) marked the main negative impact in the industry overall, followed by the Northeast Region (-2.0%), Santa Catarina (-1.5%), Ceará (-3.2%) and Bahia (-2.8%). On the other hand, Paraná (3.3%) and Minas Gerais (1.2%) exerted the major positive influences. Among the sectors, the most relevant negative contributions on the national average came from apparel (-7.6%), fabricated metal products (-5.2%), footwear and leather (-6.5%), textiles (-5.3%), wood (-9.1%) and rubber and plastic (-3.6%), whereas the sectors of food and beverages (3.8%), machinery and equipment (2.2%), mining and quarrying (4.3%) were responsible for the main positive impacts.

Number of hours paid in June is 0.3% higher than in May

In June of 2012, the number of hours paid to industrial workers, discounted the seasonal influences, retracted 0.3% against the immediately previous month, the fourth consecutive negative rate, accumulating in this period a loss of -2.9%.  As a result, the quarterly moving average index fell 0.6% in the quarter ended in June against the previous month’s standards, after registering negative results in April (-0.2%) and  May (-0.9%). Considering the seasonally adjusted series, in the quarter over immediately previous  quarter comparison, the number of hours paid in the industry fell by 1.7% in the second quarter of 2012, reverting the 0.6% advance seen in the first three months of the year.

In the comparison with the same month a year ago, the number of hours paid marked, in June 2012 (-2.6%), the tenth consecutive negative rate in that type of comparison. Comparing to the same periods a year ago, there were drops both in the end of the second quarter of 2012(-2.5%) and in the accumulated index of the first six months of the year (-1.9%).  The annual rate (index accumulated in the last 12 months), recording a retraction of 1.4% in June 2012, kept the downward trend started in February of 2011 (4.5%).

In June 2012, the number of hours paid reduced 2.6% in relation to the same month in the previous year, with negative rates in twelve of the fourteen places and in fifteen of the eighteen sectors surveyed. Among the sectors, the main negative influences came from apparel (-9.7%), footwear and leather (-7.9%), fabricated metal products (-5.0%), transportation means (-3.8%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-5.4%), rubber and plastic (-4.3%), paper and press (-4.1%). Conversely, food and beverages (1.8%), mining and quarrying industries (4.8%) and chemical products (2.4%) registered the positive results this month.

Among the places, as compared to the same month a year ago, São Paulo (-4.4%) posted the main negative influence on the country overall, pushed at a great extent by the reduction in the number of hours paid in the sectors fabricated metal products (-13.8%), of communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-10.5%), transportation means (-6.6%), basic metals (-19.5%), apparel (-10.2%), textiles (-4.9%), rubber and plastic (-3,6%) and paper and press (-4,0%). It is also worth mentioning the negative impacts registered by Rio Grande do Sul (-4.4%), mainly due to drops recorded in footwear and leather (-12.9%), rubber and plastic (-12.3%), transportation means (-6.9% ) and other products of the manufacturing industry (-5.7%); the Northeast Region (-3.0%), mostly attributable to the decline seen in footwear and leather (-6.3%), apparel (-7.1%), food and beverages (-2.0%); the North and Central-West regions (-1.8%), pushed at a great extent by the losses coming from other products of the manufacturing industry (-23.5%), non-metallic minerals (-11.5%) and rubber and plastic (-16.0%); Bahia (-5.6%), mostly due to the downfalls seen in footwear and leather (-18.4%) and in food and beverages (-7.9%); and Santa Catarina (-2.1%), mainly on account of the sectors of apparel (-12.4%), wood (-14.9%) and footwear and leather (-21.1%).            On the other hand, Paraná (2.1%) exerted the main positive contributions to the total number of hours paid, pushed at a great extent by the growth in the sectors of communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (42.8%) and food and beverages (4.3%).

In quarterly bases, the number of hours paid marked a drop of 2.5% in the second quarter of 2012, the fourth consecutive negative rate in that type of comparison and the most substantial of the sequence. The loss in dynamism in the number of hours paid between the first (-1.3%) and the second quarters (-2.5%) of 2012 was recorded by ten sectors and 12 places. Among the activities, the greatest pace reductions between the two periods were registered by food and beverages, which came from 3.3% in the first three months of the year to 0.6% in the following quarter, transportation means (from 1.1% to - 2.5%), other products of the manufacturing industry (from 0.9% to -4.1%), machinery and equipment (from 3.0% to 0.8%) and apparel (from -7.0% to -8.9%), whereas, among the places, Pernambuco (from 2.7% to -2.2%), Rio Grande do Sul (from -0.4% to -3.3%), Bahia (from -2.4% to -4.9%) and the Northeast Region (from -0.6% to -2.6%) presented the most relevant decelerations.

In the index accumulated in the first semester of 2012, there was a downfall of 1.9% in the number of hours paid, with 14 of the 18 sectors surveyed reporting negative rates. The major negative influences on the overall average of the industry came from apparel (-8.0%), fabricated metal products (-5.2%), footwear and leather (-6.5%), textiles (-4.6%), rubber and plastic (-3.8%), wood (-8.8%), and basic metals (-4.8%). Conversely, the most relevant positive contribution on the total number of hours paid to the industry employees came from food and beverages (1.9%), followed by machinery and equipment (1.9%), mining and quarrying industries (4.2%) and chemical products (1.2%).  Concerning the regions, 11 of the 14 places presented negative rates, with a highlight to the contraction of 4.1% observed in São Paulo, followed by the losses in the Northeast Region (-1,6%), Santa Catarina (-2.2%), Rio Grande do Sul (-1.9%), Bahia (-3.7%) and the North and Central-West Region (-0.8%).  However, Paraná (1.9%), Minas Gerais (1.2%) and Pernambuco (0.4%) posted the positive rates in the index accumulated from January to June of 2012.

In short, the industrial employment and the number of hours paid in the industry, in June 2012, registered for the fourth month in a row a negative rate against the immediately previous month, reflecting at a great extent the lower dynamism typical of the industrial output these last months.  The evolution of the quarterly moving average index reinforces the lower intensity in the labor market of the industrial sector, once this indicator has been presenting a prevailing negative behavior since the end of 2011. Still concerning the seasonally adjusted series, in the quarter against immediately previous quarter comparison, the lowest dynamism is also seen in the negative results of the second quarter 2012, for the number of salaried employed persons shrank for the third consecutive quarter and the number of hours paid recorded the sharpest decrease since the second quarter of 2009.

In the comparison with the same month a year ago, the industrial employment and the number of hours paid continued registering negative rates in June 2012, with the former posting the most significant loss since December 2009 and the latter, the tenth consecutive negative result.   Thus, the index in the end of the second quarter 2012 intensified the falling pace over the result of the first three months of the year, both the comparisons against the same period a year ago, either in the total of salaried employed persons, which came from -0.8% to -1.6%, or in the number of hours paid (from – 1.3% to – 2.5%), following the down movement also observed in the industrial output (from -3.1% to -4.5%).    The index accumulated in the first semester of the year remained registering negative results, with a dissemination profile of negative rates among the places and sectors surveyed.

Real Payroll grows 2.5% in June

In June of 2012, the value of the industrial workers’ real payroll seasonally adjusted advanced 2.5% if compared to May, after recording negative rates for three consecutive months, accumulating a loss of 3.4% in this period. The quarterly moving average index recorded a negative change of 0.1% between the quarters ended in May and June, after posting a drop of 1.1% in the previous month. Considering the seasonally adjusted series, in the quarter over immediately previous quarter comparison, the value of the real payroll shrank 1.2% in the second quarter of 2012, reversing the 4.6% advance seen in the first three months of the year.

Contrasting with the same month of the previous year, the value of the real payroll rose by 3.7% in June 2012, the 30th consecutive positive result in this kind of comparison. Comparing to the same periods a year ago, there were expansions both in the end of the second quarter of the year (3.1%) and in the accumulated index of the first six months of 2012 (3.8%).  The annual rate (index accumulated in the last 12 months), growing 3.5% in June 2012, repeated the previous month’s result and kept the reduction in the growing pace begun in May 2011 (7.3%).

In the comparison with the same month of the previous year, the value of the real payroll recorded an expansion of 3.7% in June 2012, with positive results in the 14 places surveyed. The major influences on the national overall were seen in São Paulo (2.7%), Minas Gerais (7.3%) and Paraná (7.9%), mostly influenced by the increase in the value of the real payroll in the sector of transportation means (15.2%) machinery and equipment (4.5%) and chemical products (5.8%), in the first place; communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (26.0%), and mining and quarrying industries (16.7%), machinery and equipment (12.0%) and transportation means (3.9%), in the second; and communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (47.0%), food and beverages (8.6%) and transportation means (8.9%), in the latter. It is worth mentioning as well the advances seen in Rio de Janeiro (5.4%), the Northeast region (3.5%), the North and Central-West regions (3.0%), and  Rio Grande do Sul (2.7%). In those places, the activities that mostly contributed in a positive way to the rise in the real payroll were: mining and quarrying industries (6.6%) and machinery and equipment (19.2%), in the industrial sector of Rio; food and  beverages (5.8%), chemical products (8.2%), mining and quarrying industries (5.6%) and non-metallic minerals (8.6%), in the Northeastern industry; food and beverages (9.8%) and mining and quarrying industries (14.5%) in the North and Central-West regions; and machinery and equipment (12.9%), in the industrial sector of Rio Grande do Sul.

Among the sectors, still considering the monthly index of June 2012, the value of the real payroll in the country overall grew in 11 of the 18 sectors surveyed, with a highlight to transportation means (10.1%), machinery and equipment (6.7%), food and beverages (3.3%), mining and quarrying industries (9.2%), chemical products (5.4%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (5.0%), non-metallic minerals (3.6%) and rubber and plastic (1.8%). Conversely, the sectors of apparel (-4.6%), footwear and leather (-4.1%), textiles (-2.5%) and of wood (-4.9%) exerted the greatest negative impacts on the industry overall.

In the quarterly analysis, the value of the payroll, growing 3.1% in the second quarter of 2012, kept the sequence of positive results begun in the first quarter 2010 (3.1%), but posted a growing pace below the one seen in the first three months of the year (4.5%), all comparisons over the same period in the previous year. This dynamism reduction movement in the value of the payroll between the first and second quarters of  2012 occurred in ten of the 18 activities, with a highlight to food and beverages (from 10.6% to 4.5%), mining and quarrying industries (from 17.5% to 10.5%) and transportation means (from 4.8% to 1.4%).  Among the 11 places that decelerated between these two periods, the highlights were Pernambuco (from 10.7% to 5.7%), the North and Central-West regions (from 8.8% to 4.8%), Paraná (from 12.2% to 8.5%) and Bahia (de 6.5% para 3.5%).

In the indicator accumulated in the first six months 2012, the value of the real payroll rose by 3.8%, with positive rates in all 14 places surveyed, with a highlight to Minas Gerais (8.2%) and Paraná (10.3%), attributable at a great extent to the gains in the sectors of mining and quarrying (22.8%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (14.3%), transportation means (5.3%), food and beverages (5.9%), and non-metallic minerals (13.1%), in the first place, and of food and beverages (14.0%), transportation means (14.6%) and communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (40.0%), in the second.  It is worth mentioning as well the positive contributions seen in the Northeast region (5.9%), Rio de Janeiro (6.8%), in the North and Central-West regions (6.8%), Rio Grande do Sul (4.0%) and Santa Catarina (3.6%). In those places, the activities that most contributed in a positive way were, respectively, food and beverages (8.5%), chemical products (11.3%) and mining and quarrying industries (7.7%); mining and quarrying industries (11.3%) and transportation means (6.9%); food and beverages (12.8%) and mining and quarrying industries (19.9%); machinery and equipment (8.6%), transportation means (9.1%) and food and beverages (4.8%); and machinery and equipment (11.7%) and food and beverages (8.3%).

Among the sectors, considering the index accumulated in the year, the value of the real payroll advanced in 13 of the 18 activities surveyed, leveraged particularly by the gains coming from food and beverages (7.5%), mining and quarrying industries (14.4%), machinery and equipment (7.6%), transportation means (3.1%), non-metallic minerals (4.9%) and communication electric-electronic machine and apparatus (2.7%). On the other hand, the sectors of apparel (-3.0%), footwear and leather (-3.5%), wood (-5.1%) exerted the greatest negative influences on the national overall.