Paul Rees
Portugal’s restaurants and hotels have registered a welcome number of job increases as at the end of the first quarter of 2018, according to data released by the National Institute of Statistics.For the first time in 10 years, the number of jobs at the end of March was up on the year before as the sector employed an additional 21,400 people. The restaurant sector led the increase, taking on 17,400 new members of staff taking the total in the market, to over 315,000.
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