Switzerland saw a slight decline in unemployment in June on the previous month, according to government data released Thursday, according to dpa. The jobless rate edged down from 3.8 per cent in May to 3.7 per cent last month, according to the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). The figure was however slightly higher than the unemployment rate in June last year, when unemployment was on the rise. SECO noted a drop in youth unemployment and a rise in the number of vacancies. Partial unemployment - when companies reduce working hours - was also seeing continued modest improvement. However, SECO warned, as it does each month, that thousands of people's unemployment insurance had run out, a sign of longer-term joblessness for those workers. Switzerland emerged from its worst recession in a generation last summer.
