Work will be done on state support for families raising children, as well as increasing the prestige of motherhood. The number of large families is gradually growing: over 5 years their number has increased by 43% and currently has exceeded about 18 thousand. Mother's orders were awarded to 1 thousand 988 mothers with many children, 162 of them last year.
In the region, work is continuing to reduce jobs with special and harmful working conditions. In 2019, their number decreased by 973 (which is 1% of the total) with the number of employees 1.7 thousand people. The unemployment rate in the region amounted to 0.2% of the economically active population. About 1 thousand people were employed due to reservation, over 200 people underwent vocational training and retraining, 30 people received a subsidy for organizing self-employment, and more than 9.7 thousand people were employed in newly created jobs.
Demand for workers is increasing, the share of which is 70.1%. For every unemployed person in 2019, there were 11.9 vacancies (in 2018 - 6.9 vacancies). By the level of wages among the regions of the country, the Minsk region stably takes the second place after the capital. The average monthly salary for January-October 2019 amounted to Br1 thousand 83.8. The highest average monthly wage was in the Soligorsk, Minsk districts and Zhodino, the lowest - in the Berezinsky and Vileika districts.
In the central region, 409.4 thousand people receive various types of pensions. Last year, labor pensions were recalculated in connection with an increase in the average wage of employees on the basis of Presidential decrees two times (from May 1 and from August 1). In connection with a change in the living wage budget, the sizes of minimum labor pensions and social pensions, as well as premiums and supplements to pensions, were increased four times (from February 1, from May 1, from August 1 and from November 1). As a result, in 2019, pensions in the region since the beginning of the year increased by 20.4%, the average monthly old-age pension in November 2019 amounted to Br446.31.
