IBEC: focus must be on top jobs

GREATER focus must be placed on creating jobs in areas with high productivity and high-value-added sectors, employers’ body IBEC has warned in its first quarterly economic bulletin for 2005.

The economy is doing well it said, but an imbalance exists between jobs created in the high-value added sectors and less productive areas.

In the year to March 31, 2005, the economy generated 72,400 jobs, the highest since the second quarter of 2000, and bringing the total number in employment to 1,908 million.