The industrial employment shrank 6.9% in August 2015, with the contingent of workers decreasing in the eighteen segments surveyed, with a highlight to the negative pressures coming from means of transportation (-12.4%), machinery and equipment (-10.2%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-14.4%), food and beverages (-3.3%), fabricated metal products (-10.3%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-10.7%), rubber and plastic (-7.4%), wearing apparel (-5.7%), non-metallic mineral products  (-6.2%), textiles (-7.4%), basic metals (-7.8%), footwear and leather (-5.9%), paper and press (-4.0%), wood (-6.6%) and mining and quarrying industry (-4.7%).

In terms of the cumulative index of the first eight months of the year, industrial employment recorded decrease of 5.6%, with negative rates in the 18 sectors surveyed. The most relevant negative contributions to the national average came from means of transportation (-10.4%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-13.1%), fabricated metal products (-10.5%), machinery and equipment (-7.2%), food and beverages (-2.4%), other manufactured products (-9.2%), wearing apparel (-5.4%), footwear and leather (-7.3%), basic metals (-6.8%), paper and press (-3.5%), textiles  (-3.8%), rubber and plastic (-2.7%), non-metallic mineral products (-2.9%), mining and quarrying industry (4.6%) and petroleum refining and ethanol production (-5.4%).

Number of hours shrinks 6.2% in the cumulative index of January-August

Discounted the seasonal influences, the number of hours paid to industry employees in August 2015 shrank 0.9% over the previous month, the sixth negative rate in a row, with a cumulative loss of 5.5% in the period. With these results, the quarterly moving average index recorded reduction of 0.9% in the quarter ended in August 2015 in comparison with the level reached in the previous month and maintained the downward trend started in May 2013.

In comparison with the same month of the previous year, the number of hours paid to industry employees fell 7.5% in August 2015, the 27th consecutive negative rate in this type of comparison and the most significant since the beginning of the series. The cumulative index of the last eight months of 2015, dropped 6.2%, stepping up the pace of decline in the end of the first semester of the year (-5.8%), both comparisons versus the same period in the previous year. Having changed from -5.5% in July to -5.8% in August, the cumulative index in the last 12 months maintained the downward trend started in September 2013 (-1.0%).

In August 2015, the number of hours paid declined 7.5%, when compared with the figure in the previous month. There was widespread decrease, since all the 18 segments surveyed recorded reduction. The main negative influences came from means of transportation (-14.1%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-13.9%), machinery and equipment (-9.7%), fabricated metal products (-10.5%), rubber and plastic (-10.5%), food and beverages (-2.7%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-11.7%), non-metallic mineral products (-7.3%), basic metals (-11.3%), wearing apparel (-5.7%), textiles (-7.6%), footwear and leather (-7.4%), paper and press (-4.6%), petroleum refining and ethanol production (-8.0%) and wood (-8.4%).

In the cumulative index of the first eight months of 2015, there was a decline of 6.2% in the number of hours paid, with a reduction in the 18 sectors surveyed. The most relevant negative impacts on the overall average were seen in means of transportation (-11.2%), fabricated metal products (-10.8%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-12.2%), machinery and equipment (-7.9%), food and beverages (-2.7%), other manufactured products (-9.9%), footwear and leather (-9.3%), wearing apparel (-5.1%), basic metals (-8.9%), rubber and plastic (-4.6%), non-metallic minerals (-4.3%), paper and press (-4.4%), and petroleum refining and ethanol production (-8.6%).

The signs of low dynamism were also evident in the comparison between the first fourth months of the year with the second quarter of 2015, both comparisons against the same periods a year ago. The analysis shows that both the salaried employed persons (from -4.8% to -6.4%) and the number of hours paid (from -5.4% to -6.9%) highlighted the negative behavior, following the downward movement of the industrial output, which changed from -6.3% to -7.5% in this period.

Value of the real payroll declines 1.3% in August against July

In August 2015, the seasonally-adjusted real payroll of industry workers declined 1.3% against the immediately previous month, the second consecutive negative rate and a cumulative reduction of 3.1% in this period. In the index of this month it can be observed the negative influence of the manufactured products (-0.9%), which continued registering negative rates by the eighth consecutive month, since the sector of mining and quarrying industry showed a growth of 2.1%, after decreasing 22.5% in the previous month. With these results, the quarterly moving average index for the industry overall recorded a reduction of 0.6%, in the quarter which ended in August 2015 in comparison with the level reached in the previous month, and kept the upward trend begun last February.

The value of the real payroll declined 8.4% in the monthly index of August 2015 - the fifteenth consecutive negative rate in this kind of comparison and the most intense since last May (-9.8%).  In the cumulative index for the eight months of 2015, the value of the real payroll of industry reduced 6.5%, a pace of decline higher than that observed in the first half of the year (-6.2%) - both comparisons against the same periods of the previous year. The annualized rate, cumulative index over the last twelve months, shrinking 5.6% in August 2015, registered the sharpest negative result since the beginning of the time series and maintained the downward trend started in January 2014 (1.6%).

In the comparison with the same month a year ago, the value of the real payroll showed a decrease of 8.4% in August 2015, with negative results in the 18 segments surveyed, with a highlight to means of transportation (13.3%), food and beverages (5.2%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-12.0%), machinery and equipment (-5.8%), basic metals (-11.5%), fabricated metal products (-9.3%), rubber and plastic (-9.4%), other products of the manufacturing industry (-13.7%), paper and press (-7.2%), textiles (-12.2%), non-metallic mineral products (-8.0%), chemicals (-4.4%), mining and quarrying industry (-5.7%), footwear and leather (-11.9%), wearing apparel (-7.3%) and petroleum refining and ethanol production (-6.3%).

In the cumulative index over the eight months of 2015, the value of the real payroll recorded a reduction of 6.5%, with negative rates in the 18 activities surveyed, pushed mostly by the drops coming from means of transportation (-11.4%), communication and electric-electronic machinery and apparatus (-11.7%), machinery and equipment (-6.0%), food and beverages (-3.6%), fabricated metal products (-10.5%), basic metals (-9.6%), mining and quarrying industry (-6.5%), rubber and plastic (-5.8%), other manufactured products (-8.8%), footwear and leather (-9.7%), petroleum refining and ethanol production (-6.4%), paper and press (-2.9%), non-metallic mineral products (-3.2%), textiles (-4.5%) and chemicals (-1.6%).