Employment growth rate declines to 3.5% in FY20: CARE Ratings

11 Sep 2020 Evaluate

CARE Ratings in its latest report has said that reflecting the overall stress in the economy, the employment growth rate declined to 3.5 percent in FY20 as compared to 3.8 percent in the previous fiscal year, but the total number of jobs increased to 50.02 lakh from 48.32 lakh. In FY20, 1.70 lakh new jobs were added, while the net addition was 1.76 lakh in FY19. But in FY20, as many as 321 companies reduced their headcounts by 1.13 lakh compared to 272 companies doing so by 1.18 lakh in the previous year.

According to the report, in FY20, top 10 companies added 1.41 lakh to their headcounts of which four each were in IT and banks and two in the NBFC space. Nine companies had headcounts of above 1 lakh each, of which four were in the IT sector, two in banking, and one each in auto, NBFC and miscellaneous sectors. Seven companies had headcount of each between 50,000 and 1 lakh and 17 had between 25,000 and 50,000, while 33 companies with headcount of each above 25,000 accounted for 57 percent of total employment.

The report further said in terms of sectors, four industries accounted for around 61 percent of jobs, led by IT (23 percent), banking (22 percent), auto (9 percent) and finance (7 percent). Textiles, which at one time was a leading employer, was fifth in the hierarchy with share of 2.4 percent. Ten industries saw a decline in headcounts. In terms of growth in employment or headcount, 11 of the 33 industries witnessed growth of above the sample average of 3.5 per cent. This included electricals, finance, banking, IT, FMCG, consumer durables, trading, chemicals, iron & steel, retail and insurance.

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