Jobs in the private sector increased by 38,517 in March, according to data by the Labour Ministry’s ERGANI system. The data showed that there was also a rise in full employment hires for the same month in 2017 (49.19%), compared to March 2016 (45.84%), while part-time or casual employment were down in March 2017 (50.86%) from March last year (54.16%). Overall flexible forms of of employment dominated statistics in the first three months of 2017, while the aggregate flow of employment was positive over the same period with 33,638 new jobs created. 202,523 people were hired under full employment (46.50%) compared to 233,030 who found part time or casual jobs (53.50%). For March 2017 132,293 employees were laid off, while 170,810 people found employment, 67,720 of which were voluntary departures.