The unemployment rate in November was unchanged from October or 4,9%.

As of today, December 27th, all of The Directorate of Labour’s service centers will be closed temporarily due to the COVID-19 virus.

The Directorate of Labour will be closed on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. From the 27^th until the 30^th of December, the service center in Reykjavík and Maternity/Paternity Leave Fund is open between 9:00 and 15:00.

The unemployment rate decreased from 5,0% in September to 4,9% in October.   

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The unemployment rate decreased from 6,1% in July to 5,5% in August.   

The unemployment rate decreased from 7,4% in June to 6,1% in July.   

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The total unemployment rate decreased from 11,5% in April to 10,0% in May.   The general unemployment decreased from 10,4% in April to 9,1% in May and the reduced unemployment rate decreased from 1,1% in April to 0,9% in May.

Today, The Directorate of Labour pays a one-time grant to jobseekers who have been paid unemployment benefits consecutively for 14 months or longer on the 1st of May 2021. The grant can amount up to 100.000 kr. but income tax is deducted from the grant.

The total unemployment rate decreased from 12,1% in March to 11,5% in April.   The general unemployment decreased from 11,0% in March to 10,4% in April  and the reduced unemployment rate was 1,1% in April or the same as in March.

The total unemployment rate decreased from 12,5% in February to 12,1% in March.   The number of unemployed thus decreased by 568 between February 2021 and March 2021. The general unemployment decreased from 11,4% in February to 11,0% in March and the reduced unemployment rate was 1,1% in March or the same as in February.

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The total unemployment rate increased slowly from 12,0% in November to 12,1% in December. The general unemployment increased from 10,6% in November to 10,7% in December and the reduced unemployment rate was unchanged from November or 1,4%.

Parliament has approved amendments to the legislation on unemployment insurance which moves the six-month validity period of income-related benefits from the 1^st of September 2020 to the 1^st of June 2020. This means that jobseekers who had not fully utilised their income-related benefit period in June, July or August 2020 are entitled immediately to the six-month period instead of three months.

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The Directorate of Labour’s service center in Reykjavík will open on Wednesday the 16^th of December.

The Directorate of Labour offers job seekers that have been unemployed for 6 months, to study full-time for one semester while receiving unemployment benefits. The initiative is called Opportunity in Education (Nám er tækifæri).